尚红文化在幼儿教育中的实践探索

在幼儿教育中进行中华传统美德教育,不仅是塑造幼儿健全人格、培养良好行为习惯、奠基人生开端的基础,更是加强未成年人思想道德建设、提高全民族素质、构建和谐社会的需要。在学前教育实践中讲授传统红文化故事,制作传统红文化饰品,开展尚红文化教育,可以潜移默化地影响幼儿,使其受到中华传统美德熏陶和教育,增强其民族文化认同感。     

中国传统文化与幼儿教育

中国现代幼儿教育的发展走着一条不断寻求和探索将中国传统幼儿教育的优秀遗产与世界各国和各民族幼儿教育先进的科学的成果逐步融合的道路。中国传统幼儿教育的基本形式是家庭教育,基本内容是伦理道德规范和生活常规的基础训练,主要原则和方法有“蒙以养正”“早喻教”“严慈相济,教爱相辅”“顺其性情,激发兴趣”“量资循序,随其分限所及”“保教并重”。     

新疆少数民族文化与幼儿教育的融合探索

本研究对如何把新疆少数民族文化作为素质教育的重要内容应用于幼儿教育进行了初步的尝试和探索。鉴于新疆具有多民族文化并存的特点，本研究一是根据地区和幼儿园的实际情况选择适宜的民族文化内容；二是根据各民族幼儿所生活的环境创新教育教学方法，注重各民族幼儿的个体差异；三是引导少数民族家长参与到幼儿教育中采，构建具有本土特色的园本课程．研究促进了教师、幼儿及幼儿园的发展。     

浅析文化身份认同与语言学习

语言是文化的载体,也是文化交流、保存和传承的工具.语言学习的过程同时也是文化学习的过程,因此语言学习在学习者文化身份的构建过程中起着至关重要的作用;反过来,文化身份认同也影响着语言的学习.二者相互影响,相互制约.如何正确理解和看待语言学习和文化身份的关系,有助于语言教学和学习者文化身份的保存与维护.     

幼儿教育需体现地域文化特色

地域文化对幼儿个性和国民性的形成具有重要的意义,但我国当前的幼儿教育存在着中国传统文化基础薄弱、地域文化缺失、西方文化倾向明显等问题.要改善这一状况,需要构建具有地域文化特色的幼儿园课程,并着力提升幼儿教师自身的传统文化修养.     

解析瑞吉欧幼儿教育的学习机制

瑞吉欧幼儿教育体现一种独特的儿童观和教育观,为世界关注幼儿教育的个人和组织所注意。瑞吉欧幼儿教育具有包括活动学习有效性,幼儿园、家庭、社区交互协作性,系统的自组织性等核心学习机制。瑞吉欧幼儿教育的背景文化、教学方法、环境等要素揭示其活动学习有效性的效应机理,团体中心、社区管理模式反映了瑞吉欧幼儿教育学习环境的作用机制,系统的自组织则呈现出瑞吉欧幼儿教育学习系统的自组织机制并彰显生态课堂的特征。     

蒙古族幼儿教育与民族文化的传承

在全球化和现代化的时代背景下,蒙古族文化的保存和发展受到前所未有的挑战。蒙古族幼儿教育作为蒙古族教育体系的一个重要组成部分,不仅要实现幼儿的健康健全发展,其独有的民族性更要求幼儿教育必须承担起传承民族文化的重任。蒙古族幼儿教育要体现鲜明的民族特色,同时尊重学习汉民族以及其他民族的文化,实现和谐共生。并将这种教育理念贯穿于幼儿教育机构的教育活动中和幼儿的日常生活中。     

建构主义学习理论对幼儿教育的启示

建构主义学习理论认为,学习是学习者主动进行意义建构的过程,教师是教学过程中的组织者、引导者和促进者.建构主义学习理论对幼儿教育教学有着重要的借鉴作用,对于培养幼儿的自主学习和主动探索能力有重要的指导意义.     

文化与幼儿教育的澳大利亚视角:多元文化趋势

大多数的澳大利亚儿童在5岁左右进入小学之前，会在幼儿园或学前机构里待上1～2年。30多年前的澳大利亚幼儿园活动，迄今仍能代表澳大利亚学前教育的特点。例如第二次世界大战前，澳洲学前教育的情景是这样的：在家里一个由壁炉、水池、炖锅、刀叉等布置的角落里，儿童摆弄着洋娃娃的小床以及面色粉红的洋娃娃，唱着以袋鼠和树袋熊为主题的歌曲：讲给孩子们的故事大多关于眼前偏远地区的日常生活。二次大战后，政府同意了大约200万人移民澳大利亚，这些新移民大多来自北欧。当时政府对移民采用“同化”政策——将移民融入不列颠澳大利亚化中，于是幼儿园教师最重要的任务是教给儿童足够的英语，以利于这些移民孩子能参与集体活动并在学校生活中充满自信。     

非遗文化与幼儿教育融合的路径

古人云：“求木之长者,必固其根本;欲流之远者,必浚其泉源。”文化是一个民族的灵魂,是国家发展和民族振兴的强大力量,探索、保护和传承民族文化是每一个中国人的责任。在学前教育优化与改革的过程中,非遗文化开始逐步融入幼儿教育,大大提升了幼儿教育的趣味性。文章从园所牵头、教师组织、幼儿实践、家长参与这四个维度研究其具体策略,得出了应精选非遗文化资源、开发特色园本课程,让非遗文化促进德育、走进领域、支持游戏等结论,为融合非遗文化提升幼儿教育趣味性进行了有效的路径探索。     

Analyzing teacher narratives in early childhood garden-based education

Learning gardens can provide dynamic learning and developmental experiences for young children. This case study of 12 early childhood teachers explores how teachers describe (1) learning across numerous school readiness domains and (2) how to support this learning by promoting opportunities for autonomy, relatedness, and competence. Participants worked at a university-affiliated early education program with a learning garden in the midwestern United States. Data included 19 narrative, photo-elicitation interviews during two growing seasons. Iterative qualitative analyses informed the creation of a Gourd Tee-Pee Model that describes learning across multiple domains and integrates self-determination theory into early childhood garden education. This framework can inform the design and evaluation of early childhood garden education programs.     

Personal epistemology and relational pedagogy in early childhood teacher education programs

Over the last decade, research related to personal epistemological beliefs has offered insight into how to promote effective teaching and learning across educational settings. Personal epistemological beliefs reflect an individual's views about what knowledge is, how knowledge is gained, and the degree of certainty with which knowledge can be held. However, there has been no research that specifically investigates the relationship between such epistemological beliefs and early childhood practice. This paper draws together current research findings on epistemological beliefs and tertiary learning to provide a conceptual framework which can be used in early childhood teacher education programs to provide a basis for investigating early childhood teachers' understanding about their own learning and how they use this knowledge in their practice.     

Preparing early childhood educators for global education: the implications of prior learning

This paper outlines the increasing cultural diversity of Australia’s education settings and explicates the global education movement and the new Australian Early Years Learning Framework. It discusses the implication of these factors for early childhood education practice and early childhood teacher education. The key research question considered in this paper is what prior learnings do early childhood educators utilise to consider global education? Data are presented on a research project that explores the prior learning of pre‐service early childhood educators at a major Australian university. The paper shows that, unlike primary and secondary pre‐service teachers, most early childhood education pre‐service teachers have significant professional experiences in educational settings. These prior experiences have a significant impact on pre‐service early childhood educators’ knowledge, beliefs and attitudes in the area of global education and align strongly with the global education curriculum movement and new national curriculum.     

Renovating early childhood education pedagogy: a case study in Vietnam

Since 2003, the Vietnamese government has prioritised curriculum reform efforts and commitment to improving the quality of the national curriculum. The Vietnamese early childhood education renovation has encountered considerable changes and challenges, particularly in the area of pedagogical approaches. Many early childhood teachers continue to favour direct instruction over more appropriate teaching practices for early childhood. This paper reviews the implementation and renovation of the revised curriculum over the past 10 years in Vietnam, and examines the changing realities of early childhood teachers' work to explore ways to implement and sustain changes in pedagogy in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. The paper explores how changing societal expectations and the changing educational philosophies and resultant pedagogy have impacted on the beliefs and practices of early childhood teachers. The teaching profession, as a whole, is facing ongoing change and challenge; not only are ongoing educational reforms redefining teachers' work, but increasing teacher attrition and turnover also creates problems for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Lam Dong province. The paper concludes with suggestions for areas for future research in Vietnam in the field of ECEC.     

A model for portfolio assessment in early childhood education programs

It is necessary for teachers to consider alternative means of evaluating their students. One method proving to be effective for gathering and organizing student productivity, growth, and development is the portfolio approach. This article describes the Early Childhood Portfolio Assessment Preparation (ECPAP) Model that was used to facilitate the use of student portfolios in two different early childhood education programs. The goals of the model, the six steps followed and the participants' responses to this project are discussed. This article may serve early childhood directors and supervisors who are preparing teachers to implement student portfolios as a supplement or an alternative to the existing assessment and evaluation programs. Also early childhood teacher education students can benefit from the design and implementation of ECPAP.     

Robust hope,democracy and early childhood education

This paper discusses a recent Australian study of boys' education using case studies to determine successful practices. It focuses on an early childhood site where access to ‘discourses of power’ for students and parents and a valuing of students' ‘action knowledge’ created a particular democratic culture achieving improved outcomes for boys. The data are drawn from focus groups with families, interviews with educators, conversations with children and on‐site observations over two days. The findings are discussed in terms of those factors deriving from Henry Giroux's work on democracy and hope. In addition, we build on the work of Giroux by discussing the site as an exemplar of what we have come to call ‘robust hope’.     

More than a shortage of early childhood teachers: looking beyond the recruitment of university qualified teachers to promote quality early childhood education and care

In Australia and internationally, government policies aim to increase the supply of early childhood teachers and thus improve the quality of early childhood education and care services. In this paper, we suggest that such a policy-quality trajectory in Australia is not as straightforward as policy discourses suggest. From industrial relations and broader policy contexts, we argue that the early childhood profession is a profession on the margins and that this marginalisation complicates efforts to enhance numbers of early childhood teachers. Mindful of this marginalisation, we draw upon preliminary findings from a study exploring the motivations, beliefs and expectations of mature age postgraduate students to highlight practical issues pertaining to students and early childhood teacher education programs that further complicate policy drives to increase the supply of early childhood teachers. We propose that the success of such policy drives is dependent on a comprehensive addressing of the complexities raised in this paper.     

Learning about democracy at school: an action research project in early childhood education

This article examines part of an action research project carried out in a Spanish public school. We explain the complex reality of an early childhood education classroom. Focusing on early childhood education, the project was developed in collaboration with a teacher from one of the classrooms of four year olds. Several of the children in the class have serious behaviour problems. The teacher (Lucía) is very concerned because they take their anger and frustration out on objects, classmates and adults by hitting them. She has a lot of difficulty working with these problem children. This research work deals with transforming the practices of the researcher, the pupils and the teacher. One of the first critical challenges was to turn classroom discussions into opportunities for addressing the injustices that the children experience daily. Teaching should serve to empower children. Programmed classroom discussions can be a place where pupils are given the chance to speak out about conflicts, and where important decisions are made to address them.     

英国幼儿教育的历史发展与改革研究

英国幼儿教育起步较早但发展缓慢。90年代以来,在儿童中心观、自由游戏观、发展主义观的哲学背景下,英国政府重建课程框架,颁布《基础阶段课程指南》,并建立＂视导制度＂进行教学质量监督,由此明确了早期教育的标准,提高了教育质量,其改革的一系列措施对我国发展学前教育具有借鉴意义。     

Contemporary trends and developments in early childhood education in China

Early childhood education in China has gone through a century‐long development process and has made great progress in the past two decades. Contemporary early childhood education is becoming diverse in its forms and educational approaches, and is aligning itself with the increasingly open and diversified society. It is clear that early childhood education in China is strongly influenced by sociocultural changes and reflects the hybrid of traditional, communist and Western cultures. We should re‐think what happened in past years and continue to promote reform and development in early childhood education.