The ICT and tutorial role in the stage of childhood education: the opinión of the faculty of public schools in the south of Galicia

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ABSTRACT

In this article we expose the highlights of a non-experimental empirical descriptive research, conducted in the Department of Teaching, School Organization and Methods of Research at the University of Vigo. Our goal is to study if childhood education teachers make use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their tutorial role and, in the case that these were used, how much they use them and in which grade they do it. In addition, a goal of the research is to know which is the utility that the teachers see in certain ICTs to develop tutorial activities in childhood education and to what extent they would serve to improve the effectiveness of some tutorial functions. This will help understand better how ICTs are used in the tutorial role in early childhood education and provide guidance on their use by improving mentoring in this educational stage.