SCHOOL LETTERING IN THE HOSPITAL PEDIATRIC ENVIRONMENT
Teacher's labor literacy. Hospital class. Student-patient.
The insertion of the school in the hospital environment, represented by the hospitals classes, performs an important maintenance work in children and teenagers’s school activities, consequently in their literacy. In this sense, the main subject of this research, in the light of the Literacy Studies, is understand how develops the teachers work in the Hospital Educational and Home Care to student-patient in hospital internment process in hospital class of a public hospital, located at Rio Grande do Norte state's capital. The proposed research is theoretically within the scope of Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 2006; KLEIMAN, 2019), specifically in Literacy Studies (HEART, 1982; STREET, 1984, BARTON, 2000; BAYNHAM, 1995; KLEIMAN, 1995, 2005; ROJO, 2009), including labor literacy (PAZ, 2008), in health and psychology studies (OLIVEIRA; MAIA, 2012) and hospital education (RODRIGUES, 2012; BEHRENS, 2014; CASTRO, 2014; SANTOS; SOUZA, 2014). Methodologically, the investigation is of a qualitative interpretative nature (MOITA LOPES, 1994; BODGAN; BIKLEN, 1994; MOREIRA; CALEFFE, 2006). The analyzes point to a reframing of teaching practice in the hospital context, taking into account a professional practice that puts the health of the student-patient in the foreground. Therefore, literacies are mediated by toys, educational games, recreational activities and the participation of other professionals, such as: doctors, psychologists, social workers, nutritionists, among others. Besides that, literacy events and practices directly impact these student-patients, since idleness and fear of the disease are factors that can be minimized during classes, in addition to contributing to their permanence in their original schools after the period internment. The relevance of this study consists of its contribution to studies that deal with literacies, especially with regard to school literacy and job literacy in the hospital context. In addition to the academic-scientific contribution, the work also presents a social contribution insofar as it discusses the care offered to student-patients, which still has little visibility outside the hospital sphere.