Recreational Activities as Educational Transition Strategies

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to implement the recreational activity as a learning strategy that facilitates the transition process in children from initial to first grade of primary school of the basic school "María La Riva Salas", Barinas municipality, Barinas state, Venezuela. Methodologically, the investigation was framed in the socio-critical paradigm through the action research method. The informants were made up of four (4) teachers: two (2) of initial education and two (2) of primary school. The information gathering techniques were determined by the in-depth interview, with the registration of field notes. For the interpretation of information, categorization, triangulation and theorizing techniques were used. It stands out as research findings, the lack of recreational activities that allow the student to adapt to the learning situation in the first grade. Within the final reflections, there is a need to introduce changes through recreational activities in the teacher's praxis to articulate not only cognitive, bodily, motor, but also, relationships with learning, in which the student You may feel fearless, uncertainty or anxieties, facilitating their incorporation into primary education.