The aesthetic professional training in the educator of first infancy

Abstract

Introduction: The training of early childhood educators is a vital task that requires constant updating and contextualization to achieve professionals capable of creatively addressing the educational task of preschool children. Their general and comprehensive training is essential since it will not only exert educational, moral, and ethical influences on children, but also on their families and the community. One of the pillars for achieving this objective is professional aesthetic training, which provides professional, ethical, cultural, and artistic skills to direct the educational care of children from 0 to 6 years of age in both modalities. Materials and methods: This research argues this requirement, while demonstrating its necessity for achieving the mode of action that corresponds to the graduate profile. For this purpose, the following methods were employed: documentary analysis, interviews, and socialization workshops with specialists. Results: This research made it possible to ascertain that the aesthetic treatment from the curricular level is still insufficient and that it is necessary to conceive the aesthetic training of this professional through an interdisciplinary approach to aesthetics and everything it entails. Discussion: The aesthetic-professional training of early childhood educators is essential for the transformation of their work performance, as it allows them to express aesthetic and cultural skills in line with the professional demands of our current society, while also encouraging early childhood children to develop aesthetic taste and defend our identity through their personal example. Conclusions: Theoretical and practical shortcomings lead to the need to systematize the theoretical and methodological assumptions that support interdisciplinary aesthetic-professional training contextualized to pedagogical schools, with an emphasis on the Early Childhood Educator specialty, as it is the professional who initiates the training of future generations.