Diseño de espacios educativos significativos para el desarrollo de competencias en la infancia

Abstract

A meaningful educational space is a learning environment Thar promotes and strengthens the development of social and cognitive competences in children. This article offers conceptual and methodological elements from Education to Psychology that facilitates the design of significant educational spaces for the development of child competencies, both in and out of school. On the one hand, the learning environment is defined as a dynamic and complex space of construction of knowledge. On the other it takes into account some considerations about child development which hey set five criteria to characterize learning environments as meaningful educational spaces: They are structured, intensive, extensive, generative and interactive situations. Each of these criteria is illustrated through learning environments designed by educators in Colombia, based on the use of cultural practices and their communities of origin. Cultural practices were found to be relevant to the development of their children's competencies.