El teatro y la resiliencia infantil en docentes del subnivel preparatoria de Machala

Abstract

This propositional research is focused on the problem that exists among the elementary school teachers due to the lack of children’s theatre use in their classes. The aim of this project is to establish the relation between the theatre and the children’s resilience in the Escuela de Educación Básica Simón Bolívar teachers during the school year 2021-2022. This is a quantitative research, with an observational, prospective – transversal level and descriptive-correlational bivariate study; the population were the teachers and as a probabilistic aleatory sample 30% of the children of three different classes from the school to apply the observation, interview and survey techniques through the observation guide, closed-ended questions questionnaire, besides a test with dicothomic questions about the degree of resilience of children with a KR20 from the 0,91 of reliability. As a result, it was evidenced that the teachers do not apply child theatre in their classes besides being aware of the benefits of this way of art in children, this technique is not in their microcurricular planning due to the lack of resources and the poor knowledge of the handling and staging of the theatre. On the other hand, the degree of resilience that five year old children have regarding the risk factor is high in relation to their collaborative aptitudes with regard to the game and frustrations; but, there is also a higher percentage of children with average level regarding their aptitudes to face stressful situations in a daily basis. In conclusion, it was stated the relation between theatre and the children resilience in the Elementary sub-level teachers, since they can encourage the primary and secondary resilient aptitudes through the presentation of shadow plays and puppets because these artistic representations capture the child’s attention which fill them with amaze, curiosity and gives them pleasure; which is something positive for their qualities development.