La literatura infantil como elemento que fortalece el pensamiento crítico en estudiantes de educación básica primaria.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to promote children's literature to strengthen critical thinking in third grade students of the Colegio Integrado Juan Atalaya de San José de Cúcuta Norte de Santander educational institution, based on an identification of the need to educate children from an early age in the strengthening of critical thinking to improve their intellectual abilities and academic performance. The research methodology is qualitative with a pedagogical action research approach,

where the informants were third grade students of elementary school and teachers from the Juan Atalaya integrated school. The instruments that are exposed are direct observation, the field diary and the semi-structured interview, which has eight items that will be applied to teachers. Finally, a didactic booklet is designed that contains didactic strategies, the story, the

game, the music and the children's own creations, then wanting to be applied in a transversal

way, approaching it from the different areas of knowledge that they receive in their curriculum

as a school based always in children's literature which greatly improves the strengthening of critical thinking.