Abstract
The development of activities with a pedagogical, playful or recreational character aimed at children and young people undergoing medical treatment has been highlighted as a thematic study for researchers in various areas of research. The multidisciplinary nature of the environments where such activities occur allows professionals in the health, social sciences and education fields to reflect on their training in practice. This work presents findings from an activity carried out during research in the field of mathematics education in a hospital class. The purpose of this study was to present possibilities for teaching activities guided by the valorization of interactive relations in consonance with resources of information and communication technology. The study’s findings indicate that educational practices structured through dialogic strategies of mediation between educator and learners help learners understand school concepts, contributing to the desirable continuity of their studies.
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According to data from the National Health Survey of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) of 2013, 12.1 million (6%) of the people living in Brazil had hospital admissions for at least 24 hours in the last 12 months prior to data collection. Of those, 65.7% were cared for by SUS. The North region recorded the highest proportion of visits in this sense (76.5%). Among the patients aged between 0 and 17 years who needed hospitalization, 75.2% were attended to by SUS.
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A set of actions designed to address some of the issues raised during academic, technical or scientific research to provide input to the field of research and to the participants involved in the research.
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A word from the Tupi vocabulary which means “near, beside, together”. Ruaké is a Research Group in Science Education, Mathematics and Inclusion at IEMCI/UFPA.
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Scalping by shaft or mobile parts of unprotected boat engine is among the most frequently recorded accidents with children and adolescents in the riverside Amazon. The Port Authority highlights social and cultural factors as some of the main difficulties encountered for the coverage of the boat shaft (which is mandatory, according to Law 9537/97, and whose necessary material is provided by the agency), among others (Marinha do Brasil, 2016).
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Name attributed by SEDUC to the educator responsible for the organization of the hospital class staff or home pedagogical service.
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Referring to the Freirean perspective according to which educator-student relations present themselves with an essentially narrative or dissenting configuration, in which one can observe, on the one hand, the subject: the teacher, owner of the hollow or emptied word of its concrete dimension, and of the other “patient, listening objects” (Freire, 2005, p. 71) treated as repositories of information and represented by the students.
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We want to thank the Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará and also all the students and educators of the hospital class where the research was carried out, for their affectionate collaboration in every moment of the research activities.
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Cajango, E., Sales, E. (2019). Solving Problems of Counting Through Dialogical Mediation in a Hospital Classroom: Mathematics Education in the Hospital Environment. In: Kollosche, D., Marcone, R., Knigge, M., Penteado, M.G., Skovsmose, O. (eds) Inclusive Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11518-0_28
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