Juego simbólico en la estimulación de la autonomía en niños de 3 a 4 años en el cantón Santa Rosa, 2023.

Abstract

The educational system is currently facing the challenge of developing autonomous individuals since it aims for every child to achieve critical thinking, in addition to learning to govern their own behavior. In this sense, this research aims to revoke whether there is a relationship in the implementation of symbolic play for stimulation of autonomy, this problem was observed in the 2022-D2 academic period during pre-professional practices at the “Cruz Garcia Cajamarca” Early Childhood Education Center, whose research is titled “symbolic play in the stimulation of autonomy in children.” from 3 to 4 years in the canton of Santa Rosa, 2023", in which the objective was formulated "to determine if there is a relationship between symbolic play and autonomy in children from 3 to 4 years", where its study variables correspond to autonomy and symbolic play, the research is quantitative and its method is relational with a non-experimental design. To collect the data, two techniques were applied that allowed us to respond to the stated objectives in which they were used: observation and interview, according to the above, a structured interview was used with the 3 educators of the initial sublevel I, as well as well as a non-participatory observation guide for the 63 students and teachers of the same sublevel. As a result of the data obtained, the existing problems were detected, in this sense a teaching guide has been developed with innovative activities to provide teachers with different strategies with the purpose of developing autonomy in infants through symbolic play.