Competencias profesionales en la Educación Inicial y su vínculo con la vocación y la formación ética

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Abstract: This research addressed professional competencies in Early Childhood Education and their connection to vocation and ethical training. Its objective was to analyze the relationship between the professional competencies of Early Childhood Education teachers, their teaching vocation, and ethical training within the framework of Ecuador's prioritized curriculum, with the aim of designing an innovative pedagogical proposal. The methodology followed a mixed-methods approach, with a non-experimental descriptive design. The "Teachers 360°: Competencies, Vocation, and Ethics" questionnaire was administered to 10 teachers from public schools. The findings demonstrate that vocation and ethics foster the development of professional competencies (p=0.66). The dimension that stood out most among the teachers was Socio-emotional, at 96.4%. In response, the innovative proposal was the "I learn by playing" magic apron, which strengthens communication, logical-mathematical, digital, socio-emotional, vocational/personal development, ethical training, and pedagogical and didactic innovation skills.