Hospital education in Argentina: between surviving and social commitment

Abstract

This paper reflects outcomes of research comprising an area or type of education in a way unknown and generating interest today: classrooms and hospital schools. The study of this educational track in Argentina is limited to the specific context of child hospitals. Even though the aim is not idealizing Hospital Education model through the sequence of ideas contained, note that the historical example of survival and development offered by the Argentinian context can lead many contributions and suggestions for improvement in other national contexts that make up this educational track. Therefore, constituting Argentina one of most advanced countries in some dimensions related to educational care in hospitals, we have to present its prism of experience with an emphasis on purposes such as compensating, egalitarian fact and social risk minimization that this educational service for hospitalized children implies.Received: 30/04/2013 / Accepted: 22/09/2013How to reference this articleGarcía Álvarez, A. (2014). La educación hospitalaria en Argentina: entre la supervivencia y compromiso social. Foro de Educación, 12(16), pp. 123-139. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14516/fde.2014.012.016.005

Keywords

• educación hospitalaria
• derecho a educación
• atención a la diversidad
• perspectiva comparada internacional
• América Latina