Young children’s communication and expression of values during play sessions in preschool

The article explores how young children between one and three years old communicate and prioritise values in order to create and be a part of a community during play sessions in an Icelandic preschool. Furthermore, it aims to investigate the value conflicts that might occur and how the children resolve such conflicts. The study adopts the phenomenological approach of Merleau-Ponty emphasising human bodily existence. Data consist mainly of video recordings. The findings show three main categories that illustrate the values that the children prioritised and found meaningful to their interaction in their play: the value of ownership of toys, the value of others’ well-being and the value of belonging to the community. The values could also be in opposition to values that were either prioritised within the group of children or emphasised by the educators. The study implies that play situations are a valuable arena for children’s learning of values. The value conflicts appeared to be especially important, including children’s confrontations with each other’s perspectives and requiring the children to clarify their views. Thus, children’s positions and possibilities within the group became visible and influenced the resolution of the conflicts.     

提出五年一贯制学前教育专业(双语幼教方向)课程设置的构建思路——“校园企”深度融合的五年一贯制学前教育专业(双语幼教方向)人才培养模式研究

随着我国教育体制的不断革新,根据时代变化与社会发展需要来调整专业课程的设置是非常必要的。由于当前我国幼儿双语教学师资力量较为紧缺,因此,必须明确专科人才的培养规格及方向,加强"校园企"深度融合的五年一贯制学前教育专业(双语幼教方向)人才培养模式的研究,积极构建课程设置的新思路,以此落实我国幼教改革。     

身份重构：提高农村幼儿教师社会地位之路径

调研发现,广东省农村幼儿教师社会地位较低,主要表现在工资收入低、社会声望低、非专业人形象和专业自主权缺乏。幼儿教师社会地位较低的事实对广东省农村的幼儿教育已经产生了巨大的影响,如师资队伍不稳定、教师离职或转行、招不到优秀毕业生、教育质量较差等。重构幼儿教师身份是提高教师社会地位的必然诉求。基于社会分层理论,可以从三个维度重构幼儿教师身份：幼儿教师是自然人;幼儿教师是知识人;幼儿教师是专业人。三个维度,不可须臾相离,共筑农村幼儿教师社会地位。     

Making sense of iconic symbols: a study of preschool children conducting a refuse-sorting task

This article is part of a larger project focusing upon explanatory illustrations that children encounter in pre- and primary school education. The research questions concerned (a) how preschool children make sense of iconic symbols when placing items of refuse on illustrations of refuse bins in a sorting task and (b) what stumbling blocks they encounter when interpreting these symbols. Video data were collected with 30 children between four and five?years of age. From the children’s verbal and non-verbal interactions, four different categories of sense-making were constructed: by material, by object type, by appearance and by function. Three stumbling blocks were identified. The first had to do with giving the symbols a different logical meaning to the intended one; the second related to what materials the different refuse items were made of; the third was being able to stick to one correct way of interpreting each symbol.     

Catching the moments – coteaching to stimulate science in the preschool context

An important task for the preschool teacher is to create meaningful learning situations where children have opportunities to experience science. However, many teachers have both weak subject knowledge and a lack of confidence to teach science. The aim of the project presented in this article was to capture how nine preschool teachers developed their learning of and self-confidence in teaching science during a two-year professional development (PD) project while coplanning, coteaching, and coreflecting on their teaching activities. During the project, the preschool teachers’ self-confidence and attitudes played an important role for the their approach to science activities. Their collaborative learning and reflection became important for their PD and for the way science phenomena were included in the preschool context. As such, the project is based on opportunities for preschool teachers to develop their ideas about science and to reframe their work with the aim to stimulate children’s curiosity for science.     

农村幼儿园转岗教师职后培训模式的实践与探索

农村幼儿教师的专业水平是制约农村学前教育质量提升的关键。农村转岗幼儿教师有其自身特点,研究农村转岗幼儿教师职后培训模式对教师个人、培训单位和教育部门都有着重要的作用。"国培计划"摸索出的"3+3"培训模式是一种有效的职后培训模式。职后培训应注意:做好分层培训;增加"浸入式"培训时间;组建优秀培训团队。     

亲职教育的本土化实践:对陕西省农村学前教育巡回支教的思考与建议

农村学前教育巡回支教项目的开展,是我省农村偏远地区学前教育发展的一个重要契机。在此背景下应该借鉴先进国家和地区的相关经验,努力整合各方社会资源,运用亲职教育的方法和理念,开发有效的支教课程及相应的评估体系,为农村学前儿童的全面发展做出切实贡献。     

2014年首届中国幼教年会暨幼教资源博览会亮点评介

以"视野、交流、融合"为主题的首届中国幼教年会暨幼教资源博览会的会议规模为历年之最,活动形式多样,内容覆盖理念与热点、保教管理、领域与课程、园所经营管理、人力资源管理、保健与后勤、环境创设、家长工作等八类关键问题,充分展示了学前教育理论、实践操作、政策环境、产业发展和国际趋势等方面的最新进展,亮点较多,值得全国学前教育同行密切关注、积极借鉴和继续研讨。     

十年来我国民办幼儿教育研究的反思与展望

2004年以来,随着《中华人民共和国民办教育促进法》的颁布,我国关于民办幼儿教育的研究逐渐增多。研究内容涉及民办幼儿园的概念和类型、发展现状与策略,幼儿教师发展现状与策略等。研究内容集中,研究视角逐渐开阔,研究方法科学,研究路线多样。但也存在着一些问题:研究的理论基础薄弱,缺乏本土化的研究;比较性研究少,缺乏发展性研究;研究成果分布不均,研究政策导向性凸显。所以未来民办幼儿教育研究的发展趋势是:研究视野开阔,在比较中取长补短;研究独立性增强,注重研究的学术性。     

高等职业教育幼儿教育专业实习工作浅析

实践教学是职业教育教学计划的重要组成部分,是培养学生实践能力和创新能力的重要环节,也是提高学生社会职业素养和就业竞争力的重要途径。针对幼教专业的性质,根据学制,制定合理的实习计划,确定优秀的实习基地,开展实习工作是提高高职教育的必要手段。