Shared Reading and the uses of objects in early childhood education as promoters of attentional processes related to executive functioning.
executive functions; shared reading; educational situations and objects.
This study intends to characterize attentional processes (inhibitory control, working memory and cognitive flexibility) related to executive functioning in educational situations of shared reading of a story regarding the daily use of objects with children from five years old in the third period of early childhood education. To achieve this objective, the theoretical proposals about educational situations, pragmatics of objects and recent research involving the analysis of executive functioning in Young children in early childhood education contexts will be considered.For that matter, issues and relationships regarding executive functions and early childhood education will be addressed, such as: what they are, and how they develop from 0 to 6 years old, why to analyze these functions and their relationship with early childhood education; educational situations in early childhood education. Lastly, the topic of shared reading and object pragmatics will be addressed: the relation between executive functions and educational situations; the role of objects in the development of educational activities in early childhood education; and shared reading as an educational situation that promotes the use of objects in early childhood education.