Development of critical thinking in Primary Education through the picture book La esposa del Conejo Blanco

Abstract

The objective of this project is to design, implement, and evaluate an educational intervention project for the development of informational competence and critical thinking in primary school students. To this end, an action-research process has been developed, comprising the design of an intervention in which the picture book La esposa del Conejo Blanco was selected for use in the classroom setting and with the intention of challenging students to an critical reading of this multimodal text through literary conversation. The implementation of this project took place in a 5th-grade class, and it was evaluated by gathering information from the analysis of the debate that arose from the literary conversation and a satisfaction questionnaire completed by the participating students. The results demonstrate that the intervention has facilitated strategies for the reception and interpretation of the multimodal work and the development of communicative skills, as well as complex cognitive skills.