Is named Early Childhood Education to the cycle of studies immediately preceding compulsory primary education that begins in educational establishments at the age of six.
Those who attend early childhood education are of course younger children, whose ages range from 3 and 6 years.
Education that is imparted to very young children, from infants to four years old and that has the mission of educating and socializing them on the pillars of play and inclusion
Also known in some parts of the world as initial education, it consists of a discipline of studies that is exclusively oriented to educate and socialize the little ones, from months to three or four years.
It is carried out in specialized educational institutions that enjoy strict control by the corresponding authorities as a consequence that they deal with really young children.
They can also be called kindergartens, nurseries, or nurseries.
It is based on two fundamental pillars, that the mother can return or join the labor market after giving birth, and her need, for each case, to delegate the care and teaching of her child to specialized personnel, and on the other hand to relevance that children receive standardized education from an early age, something that will be of vital relevance for their futures.
The infant population that receives this type of education can be subdivided into: infants that go up to two years, and maternal, who take care of children between two and four years old, of course each will have its own characteristics and demands. determined by ages.
Characteristics and objectives
Early childhood education conceives the child as a being that has special characteristics, its own and that are found at a very particular moment of development, that is, it is a biologically unique child and that both psychically and socially also turns out to be different and unrepeatable to the rest of their peers, meanwhile their development is continuous and very fast and therefore the actions aimed at their training must take into account these special aspects.
It will be precisely in this cycle that children will learn to communicate, interact and play with their peers, almost for the first time, because we remember that until that moment children have been under the exclusive guardianship and presence of their parents and their closest family environment, therefore, this new contact in addition to proposing new rules of behavior, incorporation of new knowledge will also imply the discovery of new roles.
Early childhood education proposes the figure of teacher as the center and point of reference of consultations, demands and even affections, because it, through different activities, will motivate children in the new stage of learning outside the home.
Normally, children are offered different materials so that they can manipulate them and thus, through them, exercise issues such as the language, vocabulary, words, art, music, and even social behavior.
Now, any activity that the child carries out in these children's educational institutes is governed and marked by play, that is, everything is associated with play; It will be treated with this that all the activities, the child, perceives them as a game, which is what he is most familiar with and, for example, is the most effective when it comes to conveying learning.
Another pillar on which this type of teaching is currently built is the pedagogy that includes, that is, not excluding anyone and respecting the diversity that the children who participate may present at the cultural, religious, economic or social levels.
Likewise, in recent times, early childhood education has not been alien to the development of new technologies and so much so that computer teaching is an integral part of the cycle, as well as the most widely used foreign languages, such as English. , Spanish and French.
And with regard to the more traditional, always taking play and participation as pillars, what is promoted are activities that help develop manual skills, that assist in recognizing and becoming familiar with one's own body, with the environment, interacting with everyday elements, develop language, incorporate inclusive social habits and also values such as learning to share and stay away from violence.
