Research On The Development & Educational Improvement Of Young Child's Curiosity

Curiosity, as the main content of motivation and the key feature of the creative talents, has attracted many eyeball sights into its researching field. As followed, educationists regard it as one of the main emotion and motivation in the process of teach-taught activities; anthropologists regard it as a personal nature of application and the main motivation of race evolution and science progress; while psychologists have an idea of that it possibly has got its feature from both cognitions and emotional motivation. The researches done previously have shown that it has been explored either from the angle of Motivational Psychology to make research on its nature; or on the side of Developmental Psychology to deepen its age difference, sex difference, and developing level difference; or from the angle of psychometrics to explore its multi-structure, and measuring tool; and also on the side of education to make research on its improvement However, up to now, the research on young child's curiosity, especially the research on its basic structure, developing feature, the improvement of measuring tool toward its structure, the subjective and objective elements impacting its development, and the strategies of improving young child's curiosity in real teaching context still remains empty.Based on the children's real living context, this research mainly focuses on the systematic exploration combined demonstration with dialectic research on the structure of young child's curiosity from two angles macroscopically and microcosmically with the help of the views from the update research on educational psychology and developmental psychology. First, it works out a "Teacher's Questionnaire" based on the structure of young child's curiosity and makes advantage of some statistic tools, such as exploring element analysis, validating element analysis to certify the basic structure of young child's curiosity. Then, the research studies the differences among age and sex related to the development of young child's curiosity. Second, it discusses some objective elements influencing the development of young child's curiosity, and advances some teaching strategiesto improve the development of young child's curiosity under the condition of related research in the field of brain science and psychology. Meanwhile, in order to strengthen the ecological affects, the researchers systematically observed the reciprocity among children, teachers and the context they live in through the experimental group during the course of scientific teaching activities. The result coming from the experiment showed that the young child's curiosity in experiment had been improved to a higher level only under the condition that the study context which was good to the development of young child's curiosity, including the implement of teaching strategies to improve the young child's curiosity. Therefore, the research has not only deepened the study of young child's curiosity and enriched its researching results on motivation psychology but also offered some valuable reference and guidance to foster young child's creativity.The whole research is divided into five parts.The first part is called "Preface", which was the part for advancing problems. It mainly addresses the inner relations between young child's curiosity and motivation, learning and creativity. Based on them, it advances the academic significance and practical value of the research. Meanwhile, it advances the hypothesis, thoughts and concrete contents of research through some literature summaries, some researching statements and problems.Part two is called "Research on the Development of Young child's Curiosity". This part includes two aspects of research named as research on basic structure of young child's curiosity and research on the development of young child's curiosity. The research on basic structure of young child's curiosity shows that young child's curiosity is a single dimensionality and it includes sensitivity, observation, interest, exploration, questioning, problem solving, imaginati...