The educational process and its conception in the Early Childhood Playhouses

Abstract

Cuba's early childhood education policy is aimed at improving the quality of the educational process on all its modalities. The implementation of Early Childhood Playhouses are a variety of institutional educational service recognized by the Ministry of Education, which refines its design to achieve a quality educational process, consistent with the purpose of early childhood. An analysis of the widespread use of this educational approach reveals shortcomings in the training of professionals who lead the educational process in these institutions, which negatively impacts the quality of the educational process. In an initial study, theoretical and empirical methods based on the dialectical-materialist approach were applied. The strengths and weaknesses identified as a result of the diagnosis, allowed to propose a methodology which proposes the demands and particularities of the object of research, includes a procedure to raise the quality of the educational process in the Early Childhood Children's Houses, with the determination of indicators for its functioning in conditions of multiple groups, methodological orientations in correspondence with the conception of the Early Childhood curriculum and a didactic guide with demands for the internal functioning of the management structures and methodological workshops for the preparation of teaching staff.