Components and dimensions that characterize a good practice in Early Childhood Education (0-3 years)

To improve the educational quality, it is fundamental to investigate and make visible good teaching practices. For several years and in this line, the authors have intervened in innovation and research projects focused on early childhood education, which has allowed them to know and analyze the educational reality of this stage. Specifically this work that is now presented, is the result of a subsequent research project, in which European universities and Latin American universities participate, with the aim of detecting, analyzing, systematizing and representing 100 good practices in Early Childhood Education, in a framework of plural characteristics and conditions. A qualitative methodology is used to link assumed beliefs with teaching practices, and data are collected through interviews, observations in the classroom and records. This article presents some of the criteria proposed by the research group to identify good practices, in the 0-3year period, where they are evidenced, through the narratives of the teachers, supported by the observations and records made in the classroom, the conceptual and operative components that characterize a good praxis in Infantile Education.