Hero creation in english for an educando hospitalario: a case study

Abstract

The educational context depends on the needs of the students; hospital students demand pedagogy focused on their situation, in which factors such as medical, family, social and academic converge. Taking into account relevant strategies for the participation of educational processes. The objective of this case study is the analysis of a hospitalized student who through art therapy, and by means of the creation of the hero and his experience, manages grief.

For the group of sessions different theories are considered, Kolb (2015), Romero (2014), Klein (2006), among others, where the experience is the protagonist of the sessions which facilitates the process of creation through English learning in addition to grief management. The instruments applied in this research were: interviews, post- facto notes, student artifacts. With the objective of understanding the hospitalized learner and the process of mourning for his condition. Finally, the part of the interpretation manages to evidence important socio-academic factors in addition to fluctuating situations presented in the research.