Hospital class: educational care for children undergoing health treatment

This study aims to reflect about the role of the hospital class in educational care for children undergoing health treatment. The research is qualitative with bibliographic and documentary methodology. For the development of the study, we went through the historical outline, with scientific research and documents that address the educational process of the hospitalized child as guiding elements. The results reveal that the role of the hospital class is a complex movement, which considers the continuation of school knowledge, but goes further, also contributing to the understanding of the context, the disease and the new routine of the child being treated. The hospital class also reflects the social function of the school, a space originally created for the continuation of life and surrounded by the prospect of a better future.