Juegos ancestrales en el desarrollo de la psicomotricidad infantil en los niños de educación inicial

Abstract

ABSTRACT This research focuses on the influence of ancestral or traditional games for developing children’s psychomotor skills at initial education. Ludic activities such as hide-and- seek, blind man’s buff, hopscotch, sack race, rope game, wheelbarrow, and spinning top games are resources that, when used in the classroom, would be determining factors for psychomotor development based on what has been shown. The research had a qualitative approach and the objective of this study was to identify the existing relationship between the application of ancestral games and the psychomotor skills development in children in early education. To do this, we carried out a systematic bibliographic review of 18 studies from 2017 to 2022 wich allow the subject matter under study. The results show that there is a direct relationship between the use of ancestral or traditional games and the psychomotor skills development. It is concluded that teachers must include these games in their educational work as it has effectively been show their influence on learning, integral development, and the consolidation of the psychomotor area.

Keywords: ancestral or traditional games, psychomotor, skills, children, teachers, learning