Revista MENDIVE (Apr 2019)

The development and of fine motor skills in pre-school children

  • Barbarita de la Caridad Cabrera Valdés,
  • Marilin de las Nieves Dupeyrón García

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 2
pp. 222 – 239

Abstract

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Preschool education is the first link in the education system, is responsible for creating the basis for the formation of personality in the initial stage. It constitutes a period of relevant importance in which the foundations of personality are formed, taking into account the integral development of children that encompass their physical development, particularities, qualities, processes and psychological functions. The problem of the development of fine motor skills, not yet reach the desired levels in the preparation of preschool children, this element that at the end of the preschool and assess the tasks of the diagnosis of tracing calligraphic features, trimming, filling and tearing, the Fine motor skills is one of the two most affected tasks in the province of Pinar del Río. The activity system was structured in stages, aimed at diagnosing, executing and evaluating the development of fine motor skills. The methods that allowed the basic study were those of the theoretical level, and empirical and those of descriptive statistics, such as the historical-logical, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, systemic-structural, modeling, observation, interviews, the documentary analysis. This system of activities was valued in the pedagogical practice obtaining satisfactory results in terms of the execution of traces, with regularity, precision and adjustment to the line, in the realization of their works. In addition, the correct use of instruments and materials was achieved, as well as the mastery of the techniques in the different actions of cutting, tearing, drawing, coloring, filling.

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