La estadística y la probabilidad en Educación Infantil conocimientos disciplinares, didácticos y experienciales

This article presents an approach to disciplinary knowledge, and experiential learning necessary for the Early Childhood Education teachers can teach statistics and probability significantly, effective and systematic. First, are specified a set of basic knowledge about the discipline and exposed the contents sequenced by level; secondly, provides guidance on how they learn and how they should be taught the knowledge of statistics and probability in the first ages; and, finally, are some examples of activities implemented in kindergarten classrooms

Expectativas evolutivas, ideas y creencias sobre la educación infantil de familias y maestros: ¿continuidad o discontinuidad?

La perspectiva ecológica sobre el desarrollo humano (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) pone el acento en la relación entre los diferentes contextos de vida de los niños. En la educación infantil, los contextos de vida mas importantes son la familia y la escuela. En este artículo mostramos los aspectos de continuidad y discontinuidad entre ambos contextos en relación a las ideas de las familias y las educadoras sobre el desarrollo infantil y también a sus creencias y expectativas sobre la educación. Los resultados muestran que existe un acuerdo notable en muchos aspectos entre las familias y las educadoras, si bien también existen aspectos de desacuerdo, principalmente entre las educadoras de parvulario y las familias

Un análisis optimista de la educación matemática en la formación de maestros de educación infantil = An optimistic analysis of mathematics education in training pre-school teachers

This article offers a panorama of mathematics training for future teachers at pre-school level in Spain. With this goal in mind, this article is structured infour sections: where we come from, where we are, where we’re going and where we want to go. It offers, in short, a brief analysis that shows the efforts made to ensure there is sufficient academic and scientific rigour in teachers’ studies at pre-school in general and students’ mathematics education in particular. Together with a description of the progress made in recent years, it also raises some questions for all those involved in training future teachers for this educational stage

Una visión actualizada de la didáctica de la matemática en educación infantil = An up-to-date vision of pre-school mathematics teaching

This article aims to investigate pre-school mathematics teaching from an uptodate perspective. To pursue this contemporary vision we focus on four key questions: what kind of maths is being worked on, who is doing it, how it is being done, and why it is being done