Investigación-Acción Participativa en el mejoramiento de los niveles de bienestar e involucramiento en educación inicial

Abstract

Well-being and involvement are fundamental elements in the quality of education, mainly in the learning of children in initial education. The present research work has as objective to improve the elements that promote well-being and involvement in initial education virtual mode, together with families and teachers for the favorable development of pedagogical processes through participatory action research. With the purpose of collecting information through the virtual modality and meet the objective, a survey was applied to the parents, the observation was carried out to the children, the teacher's methodology and the help that the families provide to the children. Focus groups were organized to analyze the information. The research was carried out at the Romeo Murillo School, in Machala city, with the participation of 8 students from initial education, 2 teachers and 2 families. The results showed that the children had low signals of well-being and involvement, presented uncertainty, demotivation, it showed a few communicative, discontent, without desire to do the activities. This study concluded that there are some factors that hinder the generation of high levels of well-being and involvement in children during a virtual education, among them: little time that teachers have to impart classes, the use of a passive methodology, little accomplishment of norms and responsibilities by children and families. Finally, it is concluded that in order to observe changes in the involvement and in the level of well-being of 4-year-old children, during a virtual teaching process, changes were needed in the planning of activities, considering that these come from interests of the children, applying the ludic mediated by technology and the inclusion of concrete and motivating materials and resources. Keywords: PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH, WELL-BEING, INVOLVEMENT, PEDAGOGICAL PRINCIPLES