Los títeres en la Educación Infantil.: Un estudio sobre docentes y prácticas de aula (2011-2021)

Abstract

Puppets are undoubtedly an element linked to education that in many cases does not reach its full potential, either due to inertia, lack of training or lack of time on the part of teachers; however, the experiences of those who have taken them to their classes tell us of a first-rate educational ally that makes the classroom a friendlier place. The objective of the present work is to know the ideas, the attitudes, the educational uses of the puppet that they know and practice, the contents that they convey, as well as the origin of their interest and their training in this regard, through a survey of 251 teachers of early childhood education in Spain, and compare the answers with those obtained in 2011 in a similar study through a mixed analysis methodology. The results help us to draw an overview of the issue and the verification of the shortcomings that we pointed out as hypotheses, linked to the lack of knowledge of the puppet and its properties, the lack of motivation or the dynamics of school life, and we can also observe some data that invite a certain optimism regarding the future.