Keywords
graphic development stage
own drawing
interdisciplinarity
preschool
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Abstract
Children are able to draw spatial organizations and use aerial photographs or their own drawings to orient themselves in a location. With the present study we intend to analyze whether the child's graphic development stage would affect their ability in an orientation activity. The sample consisted of 38 children (girls= 24) aged 4.58(±0.5), of which 16 were 4 years old; with informed consent and assent. The children used a drawing they made of their classroom, to carry out an orienteering activity. Graphic development stage was based on qualitative analysis, and the orienteering activity on quantitative data. Children without graphic development of intellectual realism did the orienteering activity with an aerial photography. The results revealed that 4-year-old children who invested more in graphic details had a greater capacity for autonomy in the orienteering activity. Thus, at 4 years of age, the child's graphic development may condition autonomy in the orienteering activity, but not impede it. The graphic representation of a location and the practice of orienteering are complementary didactic activities, with combined fulfillment of objectives defined in the Curricular Guidelines for Pre-School Education. The data collected provides useful information for the implementation of a composite interdisciplinary activity, of a multidisciplinary type, with the central elements being the graphic representation of a known place, used as a personal map for an orienteering activity in that place.
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