Interacción social y convivencia en la modalidad virtual entre niños de 4 a 5 años del CEI ABC de la ciudad de Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

This research work aims to facilitate social interaction and coexistence in the virtual modality between children from 4 to 5 years old of the CEI ABC of the city from Cuenca-Ecuador, which is located in Francisco de Quevedo and Isabel la Catolica streets. The research aims to implement didactic strategies in the virtual modality as curricular components that favor social interaction and coexistence between children from 4 to 5 years old of sublevel 2; The investigators observed barriers that impede kids to interact and coexist; this is given by the new virtual modality that adopted to face the health emergency that is being crossed. Some of these barriers are the time and family context; This project has a qualitative approach, which is based on a socio-critical paradigm, the type of research carried out is participatory action research; which, Hernández, Fernández, Baptista (2014) suppose that in participatory action research participants can be co-researchers facilitating the obtaining of better data, allowing to transform the educational reality that is lived through the virtual modality. Applying techniques such as interview, focus group and participant observation together with their respective instruments in data collection; Taking into account that, a proposal must be designed that allows to establish didactic strategies in favor of social interaction and coexistence that will be worked through the Zoom platform. Obtaining favorable results in which children overcome some of the barriers presented by virtuality, giving rise to an interaction and spontaneous coexistence as it was given in face-to-face. However, a longer period of time is considered appropriate to improve the results obtained and solve the difficulties presented.