Educational clowning – a serious development in the educational work with children receiving inpatient hospital treatment

dc.creator	Alexander Wertgen
dc.date	2009-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:25:46Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:25:46Z
dc.identifier	1869-4845
dc.identifier	1869-4934
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b2db74b3cb6549d2a55f0c0ba28c7658
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21495
dc.description	Children and youth, receiving inpatient hospital treatment, are living under exceptional physical, psychological, and social circumstances. The engagement of clinic clowns has recently been established as an educational outreach program in many hospitals. Clinic clowns are responsive to the special educational needs of young patients and, according to experience, are able to lastingly influence their state of health in a positive way. Based on an anecdote of a visit from a clinic clown, a description of the professional role of a clown, respectively a clinic clown, the effects and the beneficial results of clowns’ work are explained. The article ends with a discussion on how and to what extent educational clowning can be considered as a new discipline in the extracurricular educational work with sick children.
dc.language	German
dc.publisher	Pabst Science Publishers
dc.relation	http://www.psychologie-aktuell.com/fileadmin/download/esp/1-2009/wertgen.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1869-4845
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1869-4934
dc.source	Empirische Sonderpädagogik, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 110-131 (2009)
dc.subject	Educational clowning
dc.subject	inpatient hospital treatment
dc.subject	sick children
dc.subject	healing process
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Educational clowning – a serious development in the educational work with children receiving inpatient hospital treatment
dc.type	article