This research is the result of a doctoral thesis in Education Sciences, to conduct
a documentary review on child and emotional development, based on the selection of
scientific documents at an international and national level (Colombia) that address this
topic. The methodology is qualitative documentary analysis, using a comparative matrix
that contains information from the processing and searches for standards, studies, and
research into 2016 or 2021 in academic and indexed databases (Scopus, Dialnet, Google
Academic, and Scielo). The findings show a central category “Early childhood education
and its relationship with emotional development”, supported by two subcategories “the
family as an influence on child development” and “emotional development”, which emerge
from the analysis of 52 academic documents.