Pedagogical Environments, A Bet on the Construction of Knowledge in Initial Education

Abstract

This research reports on the analysis of the understanding of the early childhood teachers of the Hogar Infantil Muchachitos in the city of Cali about the pedagogical environments in early education, where the value they attach to them in the construction of children's knowledge is investigated. The research was of a mixed nature, using various tools for data collection, such as a survey using a Likert scale, a semi-structured interview, and a non-participant observation form. The results allowed the identification of the value given to the pedagogical environments, achieving a deconstruction from the discourse analyzed by the information provided by the teachers, where similarities and contradictions are identified from the contributions offered by the new school for the understanding of the environments with pedagogies such as Reggio Emilia, Montessori, among others. The conceptualization of the following variables, pedagogical environments, arrangement of materials in the classroom and construction of knowledge, was also achieved.