Abstract

CAMACHO, Maria do Rosário. Memory of a time with cancer children: reflections about the process of learning to face disease. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.2, pp. 176-189. ISSN 1414-9893.

This research aims at understanding the learning process developed by the interaction among hospital-cancer-death. It focuses the learning process of child cancer by observing, through an existential perspective, 83 children who suffer from this disease at the Hospital Infantil Nossa Senhora da Glória (HINSG), a large public institution in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil. The concept of the learning process is studied using the phenomenological/existential method, when close relationships with the hospital staff, the patients and their families were developed, from August to December 2001. The study was conducted through the use of field journal, significance version (SV), which sought to reveal significance units, describing the dimensions of the learning process developed in that context, naming them “frontier poles”.

Keywords : Hospitalar learning; The sick being; Creation of meaning.

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