Importancia del juego en el desarrollo de la atención en niños/as de 4 años de edad de la Unidad Educativa Monte Tabor - Nazaret

Abstract

Nowadays, Early childhood Education is considered a fundamental stage for the development of basic cognitive and social skills; Under this statement, the implementation of pedagogical strategies for their better development, such as children's game, is proposed. The following research aims to identify the impact of play on the development of cognitive attention processes in 4-year-old children, through the analysis of how these playful activities influence the development of their attentional skills. The study presents a mixed research approach, under the rational inductive method. An intentional non-probabilistic sample of 60 4-year-old students from the Monte Tabor Nazaret School is determined; on which a Free Play Observation Guide and a Checklist of Attentional Cognitive Processes are applied, to allow knowing the characteristics of their free play and the cognitive skills achieved by the children, offering, in turn, data on which correlational analyzes are established between both variables. From the analysis of results and the use of the Chi-square Test and Pearson Correlation tools, it was determined that there is a statistically significant association of <.001 of asymptotic significance 0.427** of correlation between free play and attention processes . The results obtained showed that there is a positive correlation between children's play and the development of attention in 4-year-old children; which demonstrates the positive impact of this recreational activity on the development of cognitive skills in school educational contexts.