Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children
The school represents the optimal setting for promoting the physical, emotional, and social health of children, especially during the first years of life. Understanding the pedagogical actions of teachers to address health education is an important first step in promoting healthy behaviors in childr...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-04-01
|
| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1172460/full |
| _version_ | 1797840540231794688 |
|---|---|
| author | Verónica Violant-Holz Verónica Violant-Holz Verónica Violant-Holz Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Manuel J. Rodríguez Manuel J. Rodríguez |
| author_facet | Verónica Violant-Holz Verónica Violant-Holz Verónica Violant-Holz Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Manuel J. Rodríguez Manuel J. Rodríguez |
| author_sort | Verónica Violant-Holz |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The school represents the optimal setting for promoting the physical, emotional, and social health of children, especially during the first years of life. Understanding the pedagogical actions of teachers to address health education is an important first step in promoting healthy behaviors in children. We inhere analyzed the pedagogical action patterns in the preschool teaching of healthy habits from a holistic health perspective. We used photography as a strategy for data collection and applied a Chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) classification tree, a data mining procedure, to generate a pattern model. We found that the school space and the learning playfulness strategies for the development of executive functions, classified according to the exercise, symbolic, assembly, rules (ESAR) model, were the main factors that influence the pedagogical actions fostering healthy habits. By contrast, the school and the pedagogical resources of the classroom are factors with a much smaller impact on working with healthy habits. This pedagogical action pattern is flexible, since teachers conduct a multiplicity of pedagogical actions through different strategies, in different school spaces, at any time. In conclusion, our results unmask the interdependent relationships between the different factors that determine the teacher’s actions at the preschool. It also contributes to the understanding of the teacher’s practices in fostering healthy habits in a healthy learning environment. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-09T16:17:01Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-6cafb99c1be9423fa1966de8739ee443 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1664-1078 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-09T16:17:01Z |
| publishDate | 2023-04-01 |
| publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Frontiers in Psychology |
| spelling | doaj.art-6cafb99c1be9423fa1966de8739ee4432023-04-24T04:27:43ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-04-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11724601172460Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in childrenVerónica Violant-Holz0Verónica Violant-Holz1Verónica Violant-Holz2Carlota Rodríguez-Silva3Carlota Rodríguez-Silva4Carlota Rodríguez-Silva5Manuel J. Rodríguez6Manuel J. Rodríguez7Department of Didactics and Educative Organization, Faculty of Education, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainInternational Observatory in Hospital Pedagogy, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainResearch Group and Innovation in Designs (GRID), Technology and Multimedia and Digital Application to Observational Designs, Thematic Core, Hospital Pedagogy, Barcelona, SpainDepartment of Didactics and Educative Organization, Faculty of Education, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainInternational Observatory in Hospital Pedagogy, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainResearch Group and Innovation in Designs (GRID), Technology and Multimedia and Digital Application to Observational Designs, Thematic Core, Hospital Pedagogy, Barcelona, SpainDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainInstitut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, SpainThe school represents the optimal setting for promoting the physical, emotional, and social health of children, especially during the first years of life. Understanding the pedagogical actions of teachers to address health education is an important first step in promoting healthy behaviors in children. We inhere analyzed the pedagogical action patterns in the preschool teaching of healthy habits from a holistic health perspective. We used photography as a strategy for data collection and applied a Chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) classification tree, a data mining procedure, to generate a pattern model. We found that the school space and the learning playfulness strategies for the development of executive functions, classified according to the exercise, symbolic, assembly, rules (ESAR) model, were the main factors that influence the pedagogical actions fostering healthy habits. By contrast, the school and the pedagogical resources of the classroom are factors with a much smaller impact on working with healthy habits. This pedagogical action pattern is flexible, since teachers conduct a multiplicity of pedagogical actions through different strategies, in different school spaces, at any time. In conclusion, our results unmask the interdependent relationships between the different factors that determine the teacher’s actions at the preschool. It also contributes to the understanding of the teacher’s practices in fostering healthy habits in a healthy learning environment.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1172460/fullpreschool teachersteaching strategieshealth educationhealthy school environmentESAR modelCHAID analysis |
| spellingShingle | Verónica Violant-Holz Verónica Violant-Holz Verónica Violant-Holz Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Carlota Rodríguez-Silva Manuel J. Rodríguez Manuel J. Rodríguez Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children Frontiers in Psychology preschool teachers teaching strategies health education healthy school environment ESAR model CHAID analysis |
| title | Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children |
| title_full | Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children |
| title_fullStr | Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children |
| title_short | Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children |
| title_sort | preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children |
| topic | preschool teachers teaching strategies health education healthy school environment ESAR model CHAID analysis |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1172460/full |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT veronicaviolantholz preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren AT veronicaviolantholz preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren AT veronicaviolantholz preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren AT carlotarodriguezsilva preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren AT carlotarodriguezsilva preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren AT carlotarodriguezsilva preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren AT manueljrodriguez preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren AT manueljrodriguez preschoolteachersdisplayaflexiblepatternofpedagogicalactionsinpromotinghealthyhabitsinchildren |