The importance of fathers of family participation at the preschool level through traditional play - Mexico

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Program

  • Type of Program: Preschool
  • Age Served: 3 to 6 years
  • Funding Sources: Monthly donations and father valunteers
  • Presenter: Professor Martha Patiño Ocampo and Professor Sergio Jiménez Salgado (Licensed in Preeschool Education and Licensed in Physical Education)
  • Address: Benito Juárez s/n, Col. Morelos
    Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico 39530
  • Telephone: (01 7444) 85-55-69
  • Fax: 4828007
  • Email: [email protected]

Program Purpose

To promote the preschool child, the harmonic integrative development across traditional games with the participation of fathers of the family.

Program Description

  • Sensitizing fathers through the recovery of traditional play
  • Fulfillment of playful activities during the school year, inside and outside of education based training.
  • Monitor and evaluation with teachers, fathers of the family, and students.

Most Unique Program Feature

The family is the principle axis in the life of the child and has a very important role in integrative development. Through times it has come separate due to the cultural traditionalism, the roles of education and home life falls back on the mother while the father is the economic sustainer. Another of the aspects that negatively influences the formation of preschoolers is the media and forms of communication. There are inadequate programs helping the maturation of children. It has already been said the mentioned programs cause violent and aggressive conduct in the education that causes that they miss one of the important characteristics of the child. Taking into account the playfulness of the students, we will reclaim the traditional games that are the history of the Mexican toy and also the history of humanity.

The traditional games, through the years have already been lost, because of so little room for play in family life, school and environment.

Those are the principal problems that are detected in kindergarten by which we realize this project of traditional games.

Edited by Michael Kalinowski
Translated by Talia Glesner