Creencias sobre educación inicial en cuatro instituciones educativas distritales en la ciudad de Bogotá-Colombia

Abstract

This article presents an advance of the research: Beliefs about Initial Education in four District Educational Institutions, developed throughout the year 2015 and 2016, in order to know the pedagogical approaches with which the children’s income is being assumed over three years to the official educational institutions, from the approach to the beliefs of the teachers. The theoretical constructions, which entered into a dialogue with the research findings, were carried out around two fields, namely, Early Childhood Education and teacher beliefs. The methodological option of the study had a naturalist-descriptive approach, which allowed from the case study, to approach the thinking of teachers in initial education, based on their beliefs about the aims of Initial Education; the work contents that are developed in this particular cycle; the main forms of pedagogical work and the aspects that are cataloged as obstacles in the development of Initial Education, in the four institutions that were part of the study.