A Study On Outdoor Environment Design Of Current Kindergarten In China With Beijing Haidian District As An Example

In recent years, education has developed at a tremendous speed. Infant education, in particular, has received more attention and importance than ever before. On the one hand, as a kind of "invisible curriculum", environment has aroused more and more attention from preschool education experts and parents; on the other hand, building a green and saving-type campus has become one of China's social and economic long-term development goals. Therefore, kindergarten outdoor design should keep abreast of the time and cater to the development of preschool education.Kindergartens are where young children learn, play and grow. As a very special group, young children are those who are experiencing the early period of psychological and physiological development, therefore, they have a special appeal for outdoor environment. Thus, children's psychological states, physiological characteristics and body scale should be taken into account first to design an outdoor environment for young children. This thesis, adopting knowledge from ergonomics, environmental psychology, environmental behavior and other disciplines, analyzes the children's special physiological, psychological needs, and behavioral characteristics in detail,, providing sufficient reference for research and outdoorsy environment design.Based on a project from Logistics Management Center of Haidian District Board of Education this thesis, with examples from kindergartens in Haidian District, explores and analyzes the current outdoor environment design in China. This thesis, with a very strong practicality, collects a great number of firsthand materials by questionnaire interviews, on-the-spot mapping, photograph and so on. With the history of early childhood education as a reference and children's physical and psychological characteristics as a starting point, this thesis, based on the field research of more than 50 institutions in Haidian District, explores and discusses the general design principles of kindergartens, detailed design, renovation and expansion design to Haidian District, based on, namely the design of the outdoor environment and so forth, finally presents a final design mode for outdoor nursery and outdoor environmental evaluation criteria.