Description

The 13th HOPE Congress covers topics such as:

  • Relationships
    • Effective engagement of students from diagnosis, treatment, and beyond in different education contexts (i.e., home, hospital, mainstream schools)
    • The role of allied health professionals and educator teams in improving educational and developmental outcomes for young people
    • Support of students and families through the transition stages of the child`s development (e.g., early years to primary; primary to secondary; secondary to tertiary/employment)
    • Class-student connections and activities that empower peer relationships as a crucial component of education during the different stages of the illness (e.g., hospitalisation, home treatments, school re-entry)
    • Maintaining relationships and empowering belonging of students with mental health needs, including new and emerging disorders such as school phobia, eating disorders, self-injury
    • Policy and advocacy that bridge the gap between the education and the health sectors with the hospital or in the mainstream schools
  • Cultures
    • Activities tailored for patients and families from different cultural or linguistic backgrounds
    • Student, parent and/or family perspectives on education and health
    • Inclusion in mainstream classes
    • Sibling activities
    • Narrative activities aimed at acknowledging and empowering all forms of diversity as a key component of each person`s identity and of our modern societies
  • Competencies
    • Teaching practices and strategies to support individual needs of students with specific illnesses in different settings (e.g., home, hospital, mainstream schools), as well as their teachers and schoolmates
    • Interventions and strategies to support student-centred programs at home, in the hospital, or within the classroom
    • School re-entry programs and sound practices to inform and prepare the classroom, parents, and teachers for the presence of a student with special health care needs
    • The impacts of illness on quality of life: learning, social life, development
    • Preparing and supporting the class in dealing with bereavement and loss
    • The role of the homebound and hospital teacher in supporting the student`s education and development
    • Effective coping with illness management in the classroom, at home, in the hospital, including new and emerging disorders such as school phobia, eating disorders, self-injury
    • Activities that build resilience in the classroom to foster the wellbeing of students

The 13th HOPE Congress might be held in May 2025.

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Prices:
350-400 Euro (Estimated)
Organizer:
Hospital Organisation of Pedagogues in Europe (HOPE)
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Event Categories

Education: E-learning, Education Technologies & Methods, Higher education, Training
Health & Medicine: Hospitals & Clinics
Science: Education Sciences, Health sciences

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