The analysis of teaching practice linking environment and cognitive processes. A pilot study in Early Childhood Education

Abstract

This paper presents the process of validation of an instrument from a pilot study, which raises the assessment of teaching practice as the work of the cognitive process in the classrooms of the last year of the Early Childhood Education. The aim of this pilot study is confirm the feasibility and validation of the approach of the investigation initiated. They throw some first results which belong to the adequacy of the questionnaire and process, but also in terms of first conclusions on educational practice in order to an environment that enhances the attention and planning in relation to functionality, activities, space, time and relationships, assuming in both cases decisions for improving the instrument and the processes studied.