Aprender y crecer con STEAM: una experiencia de diseño en el jardín de infancia

Learning and growing up with STEAM: A project experience in kindergardenIN THE KINDERGARTEN

Abstract

This paper presents an educational intervention considering the social function of education and the need for an integrated pedagogical approach in kindergarten education for the holistic development of the child, built and streamlined within the framework of initial training and professionalization of childhood educators. The project “Let’s discover Princes and Princesses ... Castles and Dragons” is based on a childhood pedagogy that values the primacy of the child’s voice, active builder of their own learning path, designed in a dynamic of integrative (inter) action centred on the STEAM approach. The data collected for this case study highlights the contributions of the project anchored in the STEAM pedagogy for children’s learning and for a reflexive action with a strong formative tendency for the involved educators. From this proposal, it was possible to understand the action (not sure about this) of STEAM considering the children’s agency, placing them as the main element of the pedagogical action, based on problem solving. On the other hand, it was possible to verify the promotion of learning through the methodology at the cognitive level, with the development of innovation, involvement, creativity, teamwork, and communication.