Juego infantil: proceso enseñanza aprendizaje en estudiantes del nivel inicial de la Unidad Educativa Procer Manuel Quiroga Children's game: teaching-learning process in students of the initial level of The Educational Unit Procer Manuel Quiroga

Abstract

The research was carried out at the Prócer Manuel Quiroga Educational Unit in the city of Santo Domingo de los Colorados and aimed to establish the importance of children's games in the teaching-learning process of students at the initial level. The research was developed under the positivist paradigm, with a quantitative approach, descriptive level, with a field design and the population consisted of 70 boys and girls between 3 and 4 years old. To determine the sample, a non-probabilistic sampling was used for convenience and was made up of 20 children. As a working instrument, surveys were applied to teachers and parents, for which questionnaires were designed, which were validated by expert criteria for their application. Teachers classify games as methodologies and learning strategies and in turn recognize their use in the teaching-learning process (PEA) of students at the initial level. The functional game is the most used together with the exploratory and the construction game. The most used games focus on the development of motor skills and social relationships, and it is recognized that they strengthen the development of the PEA of children in initial education. Children play daily in their free time and spend, for the most part, up to two hours. The need to suggest to families from the educational institution the realization of other types of games and at the same time instruct them in the potentialities they have for the development of their children is notable.