Cambios en el proceso de enseñanza en educación inicial debido al COVID-19. Un estudio de caso en la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

The health emergency caused by COVID-19, originated a number of changes in our daily life, to which the education system was not exempt. As a result of all the regulations established, the implementation of virtual classes was proposed at all levels of training, with the aim of continuing the educational process. When this modality was implemented abruptly and without precedent, all of us who are part of the educational process had to learn to use new platforms and technological tools. At the Early Education level, even though the children were used to the development of contents in an experiential way through experimentation, closeness and companionship, they had to follow all the established changes in order to learn from home and continue their formative process. Therefore, the present research intends to analyze the changes produced in the teaching process in Early Childhood Education due to COVID-19, by means of the qualitative approach and the participant observation developed in a particular Child Development Center. Together, the ethnographic method was implemented, which with the help of techniques such as the checklist and the field diary made possible the development of an adequate description and interpretation. Among the main results, it was possible to identify that the activities developed throughout the virtual classes in Sublevel II did not correspond to the virtual modality, since they were planned thinking in the face-to-face mode, which limited the development of meaningful experiences for the infant.