A formação do professor para o atendimento pedagógico hospitalar no Curso de Pedagogia da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC): como acontece?

Abstract

The present work focuses on the analysis of the initial training offered by the Pedagogy course of the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) focused on teaching in the hospital classes. The purpose of this study was to understand how this training occurs in the course. First, we sought to make a theoretical approach to the history of the hospital class in the world and in Brazil and the legal documents that encompass this non-school educational space. Then, it was theoretically reflected as to what should be the initial training of the pedagogue to work in non-school spaces, including the hospital environment and the performance of this professional in hospitals. In order to reach the objective of the study, we analyzed the curricular and extracurricular activities of the Pedagogy course that contemplate non-school spaces with emphasis on Hospital Pedagogy and interviewed nine students of the course and a teacher responsible for administering the discipline of Hospital Pedagogy and the extension course directed to the pedagogical practice in the hospital classes. Through the analyzes, we verified the need for improvements in the training offered by the course, which may bring more significant contributions to the educator in training, since there is still limited training in relation to the hospital classes, based only on an extension course and a discipline of an optional nature. Thus, we conclude that the study carried out is necessary to generate reflections that can contribute more and more to the improvement of teacher education, aiming at the performance in the hospital classes.