Socioaffectivity and moral development in early childhood Socioafectividad y desarrollo moral en la primera infancia.

Abstract

This article presents an argument facing the socioaffective development, whose objective is to stablish factors that inhibit the socioaffective development of 5 and 6-year-old children, based on the moral development theories. It was done with kindergarten learners of a school in Calarcá, Quindío. The methodological approach is cualitative, etnographic method; instruments such as participant observation, non-structured interview, and the children’s apperception test CAT-A are applied; whose data are registered in a journal, field notes, and an analytical table for the test. The results show that the generating causes of the problem, regarding the development of moral judgement, arise according to the way socioaffective development is reached, influenced by parents, carers, and context. It is tacit here that the consequences of this problem are reflected in the children’s doings in the school space as a sample of moral development and blurs it.