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IPS249 Terán, Teresita
Initial Education entitles a place of subjectivity and social responsibility, it
implies a period of time and space that receives and embraces boys and girls
from three to five years of age included, as a first encounter with the academic
organization of the Educational System. As a constructor and transmitter of
culture, Initial Education will allow children, through games, to explore and
appropriate the world that opens up beyond their affective core and family
learning; developing personality foundations in a period of conquests with
such an intensity that it will never be the same. In such environments it is
expected that children learn through a process of construction of meaning
and sense of things, persons, nature, reality, life itself. Initial Education fosters
the development of different languages of expression: expressive, physical,
communicative, symbolic, playful, cognitive, ethic, affective, metaphoric, logic,
imaginative, relational, with big respect to whoever the learner is. At this stage,
we can observe a child who is powerful, energetic, and who has the ability of
self-construction while they transform the world, with the strength of who
grows and wishes to grow, with the wealth of curiosity and surprise that leads
themr into asking the whys behind everything, at the peak of their senses,
original, creative, with the desire to learn and live. A child who holds values,
builds solidarity, and is available to the new and different.
It is here where statistics play a fundamental role. The big issue is that initial
education teachers do not count with statistical knowledge to bring to their
classrooms. Nowadays, they have started to deliver courses through the
school teachers’ union AMSAFE where they instruct teachers, and that
knowledge is taken to classrooms through games. Children learn by playing.
In this process, teamwork, communication and feedback improve learning, so
much so as the formulation of questions where the why is highlighted.
Primary Education has the aim of providing an integral, basic and common
instruction. This is compulsory and constitutes a pedagogic and organizational
unit intended to develop of children from six years of age. Its purpose is to
provide an integral, basic and common instruction and it aims to guarantee
every child the access to a set of common knowledge that will allow them to
participate fully in their family, school and social life. From six years of age
boys and girls develop at school a wide range of mental and physical
constructions: they invent, practice, feel, express with their bodies, with words,
symbols, and art.
In this seven-year journey, letters and numbers, texts and reflexive
situations, life in nature, history, listening to other people’s opinions lay down
the ways each boy and girl chooses for themselves.
Statistical contents are presented in primary level to be developed in an
increasing way from first to seventh grade, but here the problem of not having
enough teacher knowledge is presented, even though notions of statistics
have already been included in their teacher training courses syllabuses.

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