The social development of children in preschool

Abstract

Play, in all age groups, supports educational processes for comprehensive development. Therefore, it is essential to foster a playful culture that promotes opportunities for satisfying, healthy, cultured, and useful recreation. As an organizational form of the early childhood education process, it allows children to demonstrate, through different themes and roles, their skills, habits, moral qualities, emotions, and feelings based on the development achieved in their relationship with their surroundings. The authors' experience and the study conducted in educational institutions in the municipality of Las Tunas revealed a problem related to the use of the environment for children's social development in preschool role-playing games, which limits appropriate action at this stage of development. As a proposed solution, role-playing games were developed, taking into account the benefits to children's creativity and the quality of the educational process. The use of theoretical and empirical methods demonstrated an understanding of the objective situation of the sampled teachers, who gained greater insight into how to leverage the environment for children's social development through the pedagogical approach of role-playing, in order to enhance the quality of the educational process in this early childhood.

 Keywords: social development, role-playing, children in preschool