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Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura
versión impresa ISSN 0123-3432
Resumen
DEL VALLE GRISALES, Liliana María y MEJIA ARISTIZABAL, Luz Stella. Development of scientific skills in early childhood. A case study among kindergarten children at Institución Educativa Villa Flora, Medellín. Íkala [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.2, pp.217-226. ISSN 0123-3432. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v21n02a07.
This text is an outcome of a research work whose main goal was to analyze the development of scientific skills among students in kindergarten at Institución Educativa Villa Flora (Villa Flora Elementary school) in the city of Medellín, through ludic-pedagogical project "My Body. This study involved the participation of 4 boys and 4 girls, from 5 to 6 years of age. The research is enrolled in the qualitative paradigm and the methodological strategic selected was case study. Non-participatory observation, audio and video recordings, as well as a performance grid format were used to analyze the results. It was found that students use, in a flexible and spontaneous way, their abilities and knowledge in their daily actions and social interactions, that ''Know-how'', with themselves, with others and with their environment. Besides, when they make inferences and formulate hypotheses to solve a simple problem, it is transformed into achievements aimed at developing their skills and scientific training.
Palabras clave : scientific skills; inference; hypothesis; ludo-pedagogic project; childhood education.