Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Violant-Holz V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10165009 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature