Portrayal of the game in Colombia: A glance from the pedagogic documentation

Abstract

This article is the result of the research: “Portrayals of the game in Initial Education from the approach of excising teachers, and educating agents in different contexts of the national territory, within the framework of escort processes developed by teachers-researchers of Universidad Pedagógica Nacional - Child Education Department”. Its objective is to study games from early childhood through photographic documentation at Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF in spanish) services, located in post conflict areas. The research was performed on a qualitative framework with an analytic-interpretative emphasis, which drew upon the photographic material as evidence of the experiences. The analytic process of photographic images is the result of selection, grouping, coding and translation. The results of the study show how the teachers and educational agents, by escorting process, put forward a great variety of game experiences, from scouting and exploring games, to rules games; all these are based on their ludic and corporal availabilities, acknowledging the community’s moral and cultural ludic values; designing environments that welcome different game types and take advantage of objects within the territory in order to promote cognitive, sensorimotor and social developments. The conclusions highlight the value of the escort processes on-site in order to generate resignifications of the related praxis with the game, claiming its place as a governing activity in Initial Education.