No. 77 (2021): SPECIAL ISSUE: Hospitalary pedagogy and ICT: flexible, inclusive and solidary education for the improvement of the quality of life.

Special issue coordinators:

• Francisca Negre (Universitat de les Illes Balears) - xisca.negre@uib.es
• Sebastià Verger (Universitat de les Illes Balears) - s.verger@uib.es

Illness is a situation that might mean a very shocking experience for the people that suffer them, their families and the professionals who are committed  to provide them the best possible quality of life. From within these collectives, the education and sanitary professionals have to assume the responsibility of putting all of the human and material resources at their hand to achieve that goal. Between these resources, the ICT offer a great number of possibilities, specially to the teaching teams, enabling, not only to continue with their learnings, but also maintain their social and leisure relations and, in general, to ease the normalitzation of the situation without causing large fractures in their daily life.

The ICT is also a valuable tool for these professionals so that they can attend the demands of the people in an illness situation and their families, improving the coordination and comunication between these educational and sanitary groups involved in the regularization and management of their health and training.

The use of these technological resources must be accompanied by actions that allow to focus the education from an inclusive, equitable and solidary perspective, easing the answer to their needs, the development of all of their potential and, definitely, guaranteeing the fulfillment of their rights as a person.