THE TEXTUAL MEMORY IN THE PEDAGOGIC CULTURE. CASE: LA GRITA, CANTON OF THE OLD COUNTY OF MERIDA OF MARACAIBO VENEZUELA This article presents a panoramic about the metacognition construct and its application in the field of children education. Likewise, it states the main ideas o the historic-cultural theory, taking into account mediation as a possible tool to promote metacognitive processes on infants. Finally, the paper examines two perspectives: (a) from the basic research point of view, it intends to stimulate on specialists the interest for such a fertile field as the thinking processes on infants (b) from the pedagogical point of view, it intends to make teachers or specialists who work with preschooler children, explore their potentia...