Research in Early Childhood Education Bachelor´s Degrees: Preliminary Reflections on pedagogical practices from international research Networks

Abstract

Inquiring about the networks that are woven around the field of childhood supposes a scenario of possibilities in the face of the recognition of the identity of children in the Latin American context. In this sense, it was necessary to understand the pedagogical practices and educational experiences in connection with childhoods to determine the conceptions of the child that emerge in the pedagogical practices of the Bachelor’s degrees at the international level. The child in these conceptions has been invisible in most contexts and homogenized, that is, in practice it has been relegated and the paradigms that have been established over time maintain it as passive, without generating knowledge by itself. Therefore, it is possible to emphasize the diversity of contexts in which children develop, since even sharing the same territory, their living conditions are varied and a myriad of development processes depend on this. The research networks RedRIEL, REDAL, REDES, redesLA, RedLEI, REDREIR, RIENN, REED, REDidí, were taken as the basis of study for the compilation of publications focused on early childhood and primary basic education, in which topics such as ICT, pandemic and postpandemic stand out; Educational experiences and practices, being REDAL the one with the most publications. In the analysis of the findings from the state of the art, it is denoted that in the field of research in education at the Latin American level there is a high demand for academic research that does not specify specific inquiries about childhood.