Narrativas sobre la educación de la primera infancia: Los educadores iniciales de los jardines infantiles Distritales en la localidad de Chapinero en Bogotá como agentes educativos

Abstract

The quality problem in early childhood education is related to a disjunction among the concepts and approaches embedded in early childhood education public policies, early childhood educational institutions and other organizations that provide educational services to children under six, the needs and conditions of early childhood's cognitive development, the required profile and knowledge for early childhood teachers to guarantee a complete and wholesome training, and the required conditions for kindergardens to provide the lifelong learning children demand at this stage. This project seeks to determine how much pedagogical practices and initial teacher formation influence the pedagogical processes and quality of education for early stage children in districtual kindergardens in the Chapinero area of Bogotá. Therefore the methodological framework takes biographical-narrative research as a qualitative research type, allowing for personal closeness with the interviewed teachers and their narratives. The results of this research will show whether the early childhood teachers' practice enable them to take over complete early childhood education while maintaining high standards of quality