Skills development in children’s education text books. Valuation survey
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This paper reports on an educational study based on the Council of Andalusia’s Educational Investigation Project PIV-006/13, whose main goal was to analyze and assess the educational consequences that Basic Competences have had in children’s education text books. This research springs from the constant concern of educational institutions in finding a methodology which will bring about improvement and change to favor the needs, interests and demands of our citizens and especially of our students. So we believe that one of the most important issues is to discover how text books have developed and adapted to different curricular changes and whether they address the stipulation of the current Preschool Education Curriculum of working by Competences in the classroom (LOE, 2006 y LOMCE, 2013). For this purpose we developed a survey in order to critically analyze what text books actually attempt to convey to our students.
To this end, we analyzed four of the main Spanish publishers from the point of view of Pre-school teachers. From this analysis we focused on three different fields (dimensions) at this Stage: knowledge of oneself and personal autonomy, Knowledge of the environment, and Language (communication and representation), as well as a fourth methodological field. In order to develop this last part we created a survey of 73 items, validated by experts, which sounded out different opinions of teachers who belong to this field.