Didactic strategy to promote cultural hygiene habits in 3-5 year-old children

Abstract

Cultural hygiene habits, as well as other psychological formations, are related to the sensitive periods of development. They are inserted in the processes of satisfaction of basic needs from the earliest ages as it is the most conducive stage for the emergence and formation of psychic qualities. It is necessary to develop skills that guarantee the acquisition of actions, which will later become habits, through the example shown by the adult around the child. From a mixed research approach, with a qualitative approach, supported by the quantitative paradigm, a didactic strategy was proposed in the research to promote cultural hygiene habits in 4-5 year-old children; based on a descriptive methodology where the approach of these habits by teachers and the most relevant aspects depending on the children is evidenced. Among the main results found, the leading role that puppets acquire as a potential didactic resource for learning cultural hygiene habits in children of this educational stage was demonstrated, presenting as one of the main findings that their practice is reduced to work isolated by the teacher.