On Diagnosis And Improvement Of The Kindergarten Curriculum

With the profound educational wisdom and professional skills, curriculum can be seemed as a basic avenue to achieve the education targets. History has repeatedly proved that there is no high-quality early childhood education without high-quality courses. At present, in the curriculum implementation, most kindergartens'most common confusion is that they have no way to dig the problems of the courses out, or to pinpoint the substance of the problem. And for the practitioners, there are some environmental constraints in real life, and they have a lack of awareness of theoretical intuition. and moreover, there are few targeted curriculum evaluation tools. All of these factors greatly restrict the continuous improvement of the kindergarten curriculum. So it is the most urgent requirement to diagnosing and improving the kindergarten curriculum.From the perspective of educational evaluation, the article creates the system of the diagnostic evaluation which is designed for improving the curriculum, which is for providing the route of diagnosing, the way of solving and the improvement of curriculum quality.Based on dealing with the problems within the kindergarten curriculum practice in China, the article borrows ideas from the existing Evaluation models and tries to propose the indigenous diagnostic evaluation model of kindergarten curriculum. The diagnostic model(ADRO) synthesizes the evaluation on Aims of Curriculum, Design of Curriculum, Resources of Curriculum, and Outcomes of Curriculum in kindergarten. The author aims to grasp the deviation of "goal and method" with the help of the key indicatrix, and to help the kindergartens to enhance the rationality of curriculum planning and implementing, and to obtain the desirable courses, and to enhance the quality of kindergarten education essentially.The theoretical basis of this paper comes from the three theories below:Associated Worldview, Child Developmental System theory, and Curriculum Evaluation Theory. These theories can explain the logic on the creating of the diagnostic evaluation system and the proposing basis of diagnostic indicatrix.Based on the reality research, this paper proposes the necessity theoretical system. In this article, the " reality " refers to the representative, scientific and effective kindergarten curriculum practice, which exists now or once existed in China. While "necessity" means the curriculum evaluation system that used to effectively diagnosing the degree of the kindergarten curriculum according with the purpose and the rule. Recently in our country, a number of high-quality kindergartens have appeared. And on the basis of in-depth study on the development rule of child, they establish more scientific course systems, which get a high social recognition, and provide some good examples for our kindergarten curriculum reforms. In this paper, the author focuses the research on the cases in exemplary role by the reality analysis, and construct the necessity-level diagnosing mode of curriculum. On the one hand it provides the kindergartens an effective evaluation tool to view the scientificalness and effectiveness of their courses. On the other hand it assistant the kindergartens to establish the mechanism of curriculum diagnosis and improvement.This article's creative idea is that, combined with analysis of some examples of kindergarten curriculum, it raises ADRO, a diagnostic evaluation system with some technic and strategy. And from the perspective of evaluating of the results with this system in simulation, it can help to diagnosing and improving the kindergarten curriculum. So the author believes it also brings general referential significance to other kindergartens.Different evaluation purposes make different evaluation model or program, so ADRO is not the only program of curriculum evaluation. It is true that they are the gospel of the kindergarten education, which are the orientation of practical application in curriculum evaluation study, and the diversification of the local curriculum evaluation models. ADRO is a evaluation theory and tool in continuous improvement, and it will continue to deepen and develop itself in practical application.The main parts of the paper consist of five major components:The first part is an overview; the second part elaborates the ADRO diagnostic model of the kindergarten curriculum; and the third part focuses on the subsystems of ADRO diagnostic model; the fourth part makes a system-wide and simulation-based evaluation of the case with the ADRO diagnostic system; the fifth part offers related recommendations to kindergartens and the departments of educational administration, and provide with outlook for further research. And the main body of the thesis includes about220,000words.