Scientific spirit in early childhood

• Main Author: Isabel Samacá Bohórquez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2016-01-01
• Series: Praxis & Saber
• Subjects: curiosidad; pregunta; contexto; práctica pedagógica; maestro.
• Online Access: http://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/praxis_saber/article/view/4167

Play and fun are key elements in the pedagogical work with five-year school children, since the teacher is required to carry out a hermeneutical and phenomenological exercise coming from the interaction among the different languages used by children to communicate their thoughts, emotions and ideas. In order to reflect about the scientific spirit in early childhood, it is necessary firstly to think about how its logic develops and operates and about the need to recognize in the sociocultural environment the possibilities to stimulate talents or the limitations demarcating their development, secondly, teaching practice must be thought in order to establish dialogue forums with students to know their needs and interests and guide their searches. To meet other is possible for children to the extent that the dialogical principle of knowledge interaction is recognized and the discovery of tensions and meeting points around the educational praxis, as an approach to infant’s rationality and his/her ways of learning, towards the social construction of boy and girl gender identity in our society.