Understanding Initial Education Concepts
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INITIAL EDUCATION
DANIEL ÁLVAREZ PÉREZ
GLORIA MARCELA TAMAYO SOSSA
WHAT IS INITIAL EDUCATION
• The meaning of education is
let's focus on what the child
can do, like it does... it is not
an assessment of competencies
• Early childhood education arose as a result of
the need to integrate two
functions: The educational function and the
protective function.
The educational and pedagogical conception predominates in
these isolated efforts of education at the forefront
childhood.
The Popular National Nursery Schools
attached to the Ministry of National Education demonstrate
a particular interest from the official sector
to provide an offer for girls, boys, and their
families, which has gone
extending to the main cities and then to the
intermediate cities.
Preschool education arises as a path that
Girls and boys under 6 years old works as the only one
they were attended to in hospices, asylums possible from which its extension to wide areas is contemplated
or halls due to an irregular situation of sectors of the
abandonment, poverty or illness population. In this way, there is a tendency to associate the
which required special attention, the first education
what was provided in these spaces. childhood with preparation processes for school life
From the hospices and asylums one andmoves
for the income
to the
creation of schools and kindergartens, to primary school.
at the initiative of the private sector, with a
very important guidance
pedagogical based on the postulates of
Comenius, Froebel, Montessori and
Decroly.
MATTERS OF INITIAL EDUCATION
• MEN educational policy for children that seeks to guarantee the right of children under 6 years old
to access early education.
• Complement and enhance the education that begins in the family environment, integrating
skills for life in health, education, and public space environments.
• It is intentional: planning, systematization
• Diverse capabilities, a wealth of skills, knowledge...
• Initial education, preschool, early stimulation, maternal education.
• Emotional bond.
The historical-cultural variability of childhood conceptions
invites to recognize that there is no childish nature as
fixed, permanent, and essential foundation that determines existence
of all the girls and boys. Rather, childhood is defined and assumed in
each society in a different way according to specific characteristics,
given by that diverse nature that shapes existence and the
subjectivity regarding them.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT IS A CRUCIAL MOMENT IN THE
LIFE OF PEOPLE. DURING THE FIRST YEARS, THEY
THEY CONFIGURE EMOTIONAL AND AFFECTIVE RELATIONS,
NEUROLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERACTION
WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD AND OTHERS, THE CONSTRUCTION
OF IDENTITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMY OF THE
GIRLS Y CHILDREN
• There are 4 fundamental tools. As educational agents,
to carry out education teachers what should we
foster in the experiences
initial: exploration of the environment,
pedagogical and designs
art, literature, and play. pedagogical to generate
environments that provoke
How do we think about education situations in which the
initial in initiation processes to the children from those 4
tools they can
dance, creative dance, expression to develop in a way
corporal, pre-dance? integral expressing its
emotions, feelings,
wishes and taking their
own decisions?
PROGRAMS IN COLOMBIA FOR INITIAL EDUCATION ICBF
Since the creation of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) through Law 75
Since 1968, strategies and mechanisms have been implemented to care for children from 0 to 6 years old.
years across the national territory, and to achieve excellent results and provide services of
quality the ICBF has strengthened human talent year after year and has developed
strategies and projects to ensure comprehensive development within the framework of protection
integral.
Programa Materno Infantl,
FAMI Homes, Community Welfare Homes
Childcare, Infant and Preschool Homes
Community Gardens
Good start in Medellín: Gardens, playrooms, children's center