La aplicación de metodologías teatrales y su incidencia en el desarrollo de confianza, creatividad y expresión corporal en niños y niñas de edades tempranas

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Abstract: This research is based on the application of theatrical methodologies for the development of confidence, creativity, and body expression in preschool children (age 2) at the Alonso Torres Early Childhood Education Center (CEI) in Azogues, Ecuador. Through a literature review, relevant theatrical methodologies were selected and adapted, using a qualitative approach and analytical, deductive-inductive methods, and instruments such as interviews, projective tests, checklists, participant observation, and field notes. The variables of confidence, creativity, and body expression were strengthened in young children through theatrical play, dramatization, and improvisation, all linked to a constructivist and playful learning approach. The research highlights the value of theatrical methodologies in childhood, encouraging their inclusion in curriculum planning, promoting innovative teaching practices at the early childhood level, and, in the future, their incorporation into the Early Childhood Education curriculum of the Ministry of Education of Ecuador.