Disruptive Pedagogy for School Continuity

Every year, more than two million children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean interrupt their schooling due to prolonged hospitalization. Behind these figures lie stories like Luz Elena’s, who learned fractions between therapy breaks, or Esteban’s, who deciphered the 7-times table while waiting long hours for diagnostic tests. The question that runs through their biographies is not whether learning can continue, but how to ensure that it remains meaningful, inclusive and motivating when the classroom moves to the clinical bedside. This book outlines a comprehensive route, from hospital admission to full return to the classroom, supported by scientific evidence, international regulatory frameworks and pioneering experiences in the Americas, Europe and Asia. The result is a compendium of protocols, play kits, cost-effective technologies and narratives that turn Hospital Pedagogy into a catalyst for academic and emotional resilience. This book equips teachers, health professionals and families so that every hospitalized child or adolescent heals by learning and learns by healing, without missing a single day of learning.