Los títeres y el desarrollo emocional en los infantes de educación inicial.

Abstract

This research has as its starting point a conviction of its authors: we will have a better world if we educate children emotionally. It is a question of understanding that the educational act is essentially a process of social interaction that must be formed for life, as far as cognition and emotions are concerned. From this conviction, we proceeded to deepen the review and reflection on the conception and foundations of emotional education. This thoughtful process led to the exposure of the complexity that education acquires when it exceeds its formats, purely academic, since the theorists of emotional education, while not forgetting the value of the cognitive, revalue the functions it has for training, the subject of axiology. Likewise, research places as a priority, urgently attending the training of teachers in the field of emotional education. A training that includes stoking the vocational, to seek and find strategies consistent with the education of emotions, finding that one of the most frequently used educational resources to boost the emotional development of apprentices, is the puppet. This playful instrument, combined with the daily effort of teachers, often gives excellent results when it comes to training healthy individuals, emotionally speaking. From this premise, we have located in the "Center of Initial Education "Amada Agurto de Galarza", to diagnose the socio-pedagogical circumstances in which its teachers take on the task of guiding the infants and the educational resources they use. It was revealed, in this diagnostic exercise, that teachers, although they have some general knowledge and occasionally apply the puppet technique, do so occasionally and not include it as a distinctive element in their planning. Faced with this, we set ourselves as a general objective of the research "To determine the relationship that exists between the use of puppets as a teaching resource, and the emotional development of children of the Center for Initial Education Agurto de Galarza according to the perception of its teachers". Methodologically this objective was operationalized, and two types of instruments were designed, an open interview for teachers and two observation guides, one for teachers and one for infants. With these informational inputs and the respective theorization, an integrative proposal was designed to achieve an objective of practical application: To execute the assembly of a play based on the use of puppets, oriented to significant learning and the development of positive emotions in the students of the Center for Initial Education "Amada Agurto de Galarza". Within the framework of the proposal, two activities were designed, one formative and one of empirical implementation and, although both activities are proposed in rather adverse social circumstances, the analysis of their feasibility, yielded favorable prospects so that, in the immediate future, the use of puppets as an educational resource to promote the emotional development of children studying at the Center for Initial Education "Amada Agurto Galarza, is a reality.