Study On Pre-school Education Curriculum Model Design

Today, with the people pursuing kindergarten curriculum localization and characteristic more and more deep, the kindergarten curriculum presents a great development situation like all flowers blooming together. But affected by many factors, the kindergarten curriculum construction in our country appears many unscientific phenomena, typically there are copy blindly, imitation blindly and "primary school-oriented" phenomenon, the solution of these problems are in urgent need of theoretical guidance. Curriculum model is the bridge of curriculum theory into curriculum practice, it is of great value to deal with the problems in the curriculum practice. However, both the preschool curriculum theoretical and the practical circles are lack of deeply research into curriculum model. Most of them are not with an open attitude to know curriculum model, instead of they think curriculum mode as "stereotypes". In fact, not only the classical curriculum model is curriculum model, curriculum model can be constructed by independently, only in this way, curriculum model diversification can be realized. Based on this, the dissertation devotes to discussing related question about preschool education curriculum model design. Besides the introduction, the dissertation comprises six chapters four parts:The first part is chapter one, the author discusses the concept, diversification, production means and research significance of curriculum model, it lays the conceptual basis and provides the analysis framework for this study. The author thinks curriculum model is the curriculum plan expressed in the form of typical and contracted, its core is the curriculum structure which is compatible with some education condition and can produce specific education function. Its main elements include: theoretical basis, target function, curriculum structure, support system and application environment.The second part is chapter two, three and four, the author introduces and analyzes the related information about preschool education curriculum model at home and abroad, so as to provide reference for the current preschool education curriculum model construction. In chapter two, the author selected five curriculum models in western as the object which are most discussed by people and also are more profound influence to our country, then accord to the five elements of curriculum model for the analysis respectively and overall comparison to them; In chapter three, the author recalls and analyzes the history of the preschool education curriculum model change in our country. It shows that the preschool education curriculum model change in our country is developed between the combination and rebellions of drawing lessons from foreign and local traditions, curriculum theory and curriculum practice, inheriting the tradition and adhering to the development. The change is affected by many factors and constrains such as time background, curriculum ideas, cultural tradition and so on. So curriculum mode change must establish the idea of scientific preschool curriculum as the premise condition, realize the localization of the advanced foreign experience as the ought to be path; In chapter four, the author investigates the present situation of our preschool education curriculum model, the contents involve in the need for preschool education curriculum model design, the variables which should be taken into account in preschool education curriculum model design, preschool education curriculum structure design, the basic elements of preschool education curriculum’s design and several typical examples about the curriculum model in the kindergarten. Based on this, the author analyzes all sorts of problems in current preschool education curriculum model design in our country, and puts forward the coping strategies.The third part is chapter five, based on the discussion in the second part, the author summarizes the basic variables which influence the preschool education curriculum model design. Depend on the nature of the variables, it can be divided into three categories:concept variable, environment variable and condition variable. Concept variable includes view on children, educational view, curricular view. Environment variable includes time background, cultural tradition, the status of preschool education in elementary education. Condition variable includes children’s physical and mental development, parents demand, the implementation condition in the kindergarten, parents and community resources. Through the in-depth analysis of each variable, in order to guide the current preschool education curriculum model design.The fourth part is chapter six, the author focuses on the basic process of the preschool education curriculum model design. First of all, we need to set training objective of preschool education. the author believes that the training objective of preschool education should be really return to "people", its basic connotation should include three aspects of harmonious and unified as follows:focus on the lives of children growing up, build the may life of children, cultivate the entire personality of children; The second, we need to design preschool education curriculum structure. The author bases on the analysis of current status of preschool education curriculum structure in our country, puts forward the general idea of preschool education curriculum structure design, which should give priority to relatively perfect comprehensive curriculum, supplemented by activity curriculum, and pay attention to the construction of hidden curriculum, to realize the organic integration of the three types of curriculum; Finally, we need develop curriculum according to the constituent elements, including preschool education curriculum objective setting, preschool education curriculum content selecting, preschool education curriculum implementation process designing and preschool education curriculum evaluation standard developing.