Showing papers in "Early Childhood Education in 2006"

A Survey of Preschool Educators' Ideas about Inclusive Education

Abstract: The author investigated 115 Shanghai preschool educators about including special children in regular class (inclusive education) through questionnaires and interviews. The results show that educators in semi-inclusive kindergartens hold most positive attitude towards inclusive education but they tend to hold lower opinion about special children than those in special kindergartens while educators in non-inclusive kindergartens are more likely to accept inclusive education and express more urgent need of professional knowledge and skills compared with those in full-inclusive ones. Among educators of different positions, administrators hold the positive perception to inclusion while care-givers are more apt to accept inclusion and more confident to care special children than teachers. The study indicates that knowledge of inclusion is of great importance for further development of preschool special education in Shanghai.

A Pedagogy of Welcoming and Hospitality Built on Listening: An Ethical and Political Perspective on Early Childhood Education

Abstract: A Pedagogy of Welcoming and Hospitality Built on Listening: An Ethical and Political Perspective on Early Childhood Education

On Acquisition of Early Literacy

Abstract: Based on the issue of "How do preschool students learn to read and write", this article explores two features in the acquisition of literacy in early childhood which refers to "early phrases" and "foundation laying". Literacy development in early phrases performs as authenticity of learning situations, indirect learning objectives, interactivity and creativity in learning process and experience in learning outcome. The principle of early literacy education is to create authentic and meaningful situations, and its strategies are the integration of literacy learning with learning in other fields, the combination of daily literacy leaning and specific literacy learning, the association of oral learning and literacy language learning. [

On Feasibility and Approach of Life Education for Preschool Children

Abstract: Nowadays, study and practice of life education in China are confined to the phase of formal school education and life education for preschool children is comparatively neglected. This paper analyses the feasibility of life education for preschool children around the four basic concepts of life education, namely, value, conscience, freedom of will and self-other relationship. And finally the approaches to achieve life education are discussed from the aspects of kindergarten, teacher, family and community education.

Misunderstanding of Cultural Security:A Comment On The Choice About The Value Of Children Education

Abstract: In China, currently, opinions vary significantly on the contents, causes of cultural security, and policymaking. There exist three kinds of misunderstandings of cultural security: misunderstand of the exchange between local culture and foreign cultures, misunderstanding of the changes of main stream cultural value, and misunderstanding of the relativity and concomitance of cultural security. The misunderstanding of cultural security will result in the narrow cultural nationalism. From the view of the value of children education, multi cultural education is an effective measure to guarantee the security of culture. [

The Group Work and Partner Cooperation in the Kindergarten Curriculum

Abstract: The thesis explains in details the value of the group work and partner cooperation, and it narrates the main forms of the cooperation in the group work activity. The thesis also analyzes the factors that affect the cooperation and it indicates the situation that the kindergarten teachers should stand by in the children group work activity.

Maths Education for Children in China from the Angle of Sino-US Cultural Difference

Abstract: This thesis reveals the difference of the methods and ideas of early childhood education between China and U.S.A, and it also analyzes the difference from the cultural angle. On the basis of the analysis, the author introspects on the practice of children's maths education according to the cultural difference, and he thinks that the present educational reform on maths should absorb some active elements from western educational ideas while, at the same time, keeping the cultural characteristics of our own and this is a long and complicated process.