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This paper is based on a research which aims to describe and analyze the type – structure, principles, values, methodologies, etc. – of the Association “Operação Nariz Vermelho” (Red Nose Association), giving particular attention to the intervention of “Doctors Clowns”. These professionals/artists carry out creative and fun activities, in pediatrical hospitals, with hospitalized children and frequently involving also their relatives (mostly parents). One of the main interest of this research is connected with the rights of the hospitalized children, taking seriously not only the principles but principally practices related with the “Convention on the Rights of the Child” and the “European Letter of the hospitalized child”.
This above referred to Association, officially constituted in 2002, has a very peculiar nature, being the only association of this type in Portugal, without politic or religion connections. His principal purpose is to assure in a continuous way an intervention program inside the Pediatrical Portuguese Hospitals, through the visit of professional artists (the “Doctors Clowns”) who have specialized vocational training inside the hospital and work in straight collaboration with the hospital professionals.
Sickness in childhood affects the development and well-being of the child in various domains, (physical, psychic or emotional), making his/her more vulnerable and having repercussions at their self-esteem and confidence. Therefore, this ethnographic was carried out in an urban pediatrical hospital, where the “Doctors Clowns” intervene, aiming at to describe and interpret the situations of happiness and well-being involving both the artists and the children, also connected with the repercussion in children’s predisposition for learning at the hospital in a more friendly way.
In a theoretical perspective, it is considered that understanding children’s playing and their happiness and well-being in the hospital it’s not ordinary, because many times, in this context, these terms - children’s playing, humour and hospital - are incompatible, which makes more difficult the implementation of projects that amplify the possibility to experience of the happiness and well-being activities in a pediatrical hospital.
In this way, the main objectives of this research are: to analyze the effects of happiness and well-being activities’ carried out with children in the hospital; to understand the characteristics of the Association; to identify the role of the various actors in the children’s process of recovery (Association, children and their relatives and professionals, mainly “doctors clowns”. The ethnographic research is based, mainly, in these professionals, considering their role in which concerns to the promotion of happiness and well-being activities with the hospitalized children. The research dimensions of analysis includes the type of intervention; the relationships and interactions between the “Doctors Clowns” and children and their relatives (mostly parents); to understand the effects of the action of the “Doctors Clowns”, from their point of view, through the ethnographic observation and semi-structured interviews (under the master thesis); and to observe and interpret the impact of the action of the “Doctors Clowns”, from the children’s point of view, through informal conversations, besides the observation of non-verbal manifestations (under the doctoral project, in preparation).
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