[MEDICAL PEDAGOGY - THE USE OF PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND COPING IN PEDIATRIC HOSPITALIZATION].

Abstract

Introduction: Teachers employed in educational centers inside hospitals, encounter thousands of hospitalized children every year. Although many pedagogical tools are at hand, in order to establish a designated unique pedagogical profession, their practice is in need of an organizing principle compatible with hospital goals. In this article we assert that hospital teachers can and should become an inherent and meaningful factor in promoting children's health and supporting healing processes. We will examine and elaborate on the potential basis for synergizing goals by exploring the meaning of structures of health and illness existing in the bio-medical model and those in integrative models. Through three examples from the hospital teacher's work, we will try to demonstrate how a combination of points of view can constitute both an organizing principle in pedagogical practice and a profit in holistic medical care for hospitalized children.