A Case Study Of The Status And Characteristics Of The Implementation Of Kindergarten's Curriculum

With the deepening reform of the kindergarten curriculum, the study of kindergarten curriculum implementation begins to gain attention. As an important issue of kindergarten curriculum, the implement of kindergarten curriculum is an important part of achieve the goal of the kindergarten curriculum under the guidance of national policy and idea on early childhood education, and under the laws of physical and mental development of children and actual situation in kindergarten. Also, form the plan courses and programs through the teacher's understanding and transformation, with direct contact with children, and the real impact on children education process.In 2001 the Ministry of Education issued "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education (Trial)", the new idea of curriculum is divided into five areas:health, language, science, society and art under the guidance of the kindergarten curriculum and issued for implementation throughout the kindergarten. This study sorts out the research literature on the course design, implementation and kindergarten curriculum implementation. Through several kindergartens curriculum design and the status of implementation in one kindergarten, the researcher using case studies of qualitative research methods, through a wide range of data collection field, such as observations, formal and informal interviews, document analysis and other methods, and then sorting and analysis the study data. The following thesis consists eight parts:Chapter I:Introduction. Clarify the question of origin and meaning; specific research purpose and research questions; explains the research method; apprised the scope and limitations.Chapter II:Literature review. Summarize the relevant literature on the curriculum, curriculum implementation, the implementation of the kindergarten curriculum and the status of kindergarten curriculum.Chapter III:Research Process. This part including a clear research questions, research into the field of data collection, analysis and research validity.Chapter IV:Kindergarten curriculum design and analysis of the situation. First, describe and analysis the status of the curriculum in several kindergartens. Then, describe the status of the design and objectives, curriculum design, course selection, course organization, course evaluation and other aspects of the curriculum in the case kindergarten.Chapter V:The actual state of running the kindergarten curriculum. Describe and analysis the actually running courses on the social life category, education category, and game category. Describe kindergarten curriculum evaluation and the actual operating conditions.Chapter VI:Characteristics of the implementation of the kindergarten curriculum. Summarize the characteristics the implementation of the kindergarten curriculum from the three aspects, kindergarten curriculum, kindergarten curriculum practical operation and kindergarten curriculum evaluation.Chapter VII:Kindergarten curriculum implementation factors. Analysis and summarized the main factors affecting the kindergarten curriculum implementation: national policy on early childhood education, society, kindergarten,kindergarten principal, and kindergarten teachers or chuldren.Chapter VIII:Conclusions and recommendations. Summarize the study's conclusions and proposals the corresponding conclusions through the above analysis.