Las fábulas infantiles para el desarrollo de los valores morales en niños de 4 a 5 años, El Guabo 2024.

Abstract

The present research project, entitled Children's fables for the development of moral values in children from 4 to 5 years old, El Guabo, 2024, has as its main objective, to establish how children's fables contribute to the development of moral values in children from 4 to 5 years old. The methodology focuses on a quantitative approach, with a descriptive scope and a non-experimental design, allowing the collection and analysis of statistical data through observation of the study problem. In the development of the research, two main instruments were used: a questionnaire with closed questions addressed to four teachers and an observation form applied to 30 children from 4 to 5 years old from an educational institution, which obtained results that reflect the lack of development of moral values within the educational classrooms, which underlines the urgent need to intervene in this aspect. Children's fables emerge as a highly effective educational technique to inculcate these values, due to their ability to capture the attention and stimulate the imagination of children. Through simple narratives and attractive characters, where moral lessons are offered that infants can internalize more effectively. This project highlights the importance of using innovative and creative pedagogical methods to address values education from an early age, thus contributing to the integral development of children. Finally, a pedagogical notebook was designed for early childhood education teachers with the objective of fostering the development of moral values in infants, thus achieving a favorable performance in different situations of daily life and improving coexistence in the school environment.