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Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children
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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.
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VIOLANT, Verónica, RODRÍGUEZ SILVA, Carlota and RODRÍGUEZ ALLUÉ, Manuel José. Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children. Frontiers in Psychology. 2023. Vol. 14, num. 1172460. ISSN 1664-1078. [consulted: 6 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/197224