English translation of previous article It should be forbidden to teach reading and writing in kindergarten. The idea was defended by Eduardo Sá at the meeting Vale a Pena go to the Pre, a joint initiative of the Carlucci American International School of Lisbon (CAISL) and Parents magazine & Sons to debate and clarify the value of preschool education in education a child. Eduardo Sá, who began by expressing his disagreement by distinction that is made between early childhood education and compulsory education, then considered that there are still some bugs in the way it sometimes pre-school education is practiced. Kindergarten is not to learn to read or write, criticized, noting that children before they learn to read, learn to play and that it is not for a child become a little monkey imitation that she will be smarter . Eduardo Sá, clinical psychologist with much of his career dedicated to child psychology, argued that kindergarten should rather be a place where the child performs physical activity therefore justified, children learn to think with the body and if they know wiggle will be more verbally expressive body. Moreover, he continued, kindergarten should be a place for the child to receive music education (the music makes them more fluent in the mother tongue) and visual education (the more visual education have less difficulties have spelling ). Moreover, further said, children need to tell and hear stories in kindergarten, stressing that the stories help thinking and the symbolic language pack thoughts. But more than all this, the kindergarten should be an area for children to play. The joke is a heritage of humanity that helps thinking in real time and solve problems, said the psychologist, stressing that play can not be an activity weekend nor play spaces can be confined the enclosed courtyards. It is compulsory that children play in the street, he argued. In short, he concluded, kindergarten is good for health and it is urgent to be cherished. Under penalty that we may pay in the future exorbitant costs for such oblivion. After the opening statement of Eduardo Sá, the meeting Vale a Pena go to the Pre continued discussions and workshops, in which were highlighted, among other topics, the promotion of self-esteem and confidence, the warning signs in child development and the importance of computers in early childhood.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 05:12:44 +0000
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