The Relationship Among Children’s Early Childhood Education Experience, Family Characters And School Adjustment

Developing early childhood education has been becoming more and moresignificant nowadays. It has been involved in State Planning Outline for Medium andLong-term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020). In order to explore abetter way to develop early childhood education, we need to know the currentsituation, and the relationship between the preschool experience and the children’sdevelopment.This paper involves three studys. In the first study, Grade-1pupils from a primaryschool in Dongbei were selected. And the goal of the first study is to explore therelationship between the early childhood education experience, family characters andthe children’s school adjustment in the city. In the last two studys, Grade-1pupilsfrom seven township central schools in Dongbei were selected, who had attended thetownship central kindergarten only and had never transferred, and whose earlychildhood education length is not longer than46-month. And the goals of these studysare to explore the the relationship between the early childhood education experience,family characters and the children’s school adjustment in the countryside.Backtracking method, questionnaire method, and peer nomination are used. Theresults are as follows:(1) Early childhood education experience is a predictor of Grade-1children’school adjustment.In the city, students whose early childhood education time is longer, show lessattacking and offensive behaviors, conflicting teacher-student relationships, andproblem behaviors. Students who had came from model kindergarten show morepositive social behaviors, close teacher-student relationships than students who hadnot came from model kindergarten.In the countryside, students whose early childhood education time is longer, showmore positive social behaviors and math scores. In the first semester, students whoseearly childhood education length is shorter than3-year show more conflictingteacher-student relationships and problem behaviors than students whose earlychildhood education length is more than3-year but less than4-year.(2) Family characters are predictors of Grade-1children’s school adjustment.In the city, students whose paternal eudcation level is higher, show more positivesocial behaviors, close teacher-student relationships and popular peer relationships. And they show less attacking and offensive behaviors.In the countryside, students whose paternal eudcation level is higher, show lessconflicting teacher-student relationship. And students with higher financial rewardshow more positive social behaviors, close teacher-student relationships and popularpeer relationships.(3) Early childhood education experience and family characters interact to jointlyexert an impact on Grade-1children’s school adjustment.In the city, students with higher financial reward and higher childhood educationlength show less problem behaviors than students with shorter financial reward andhigher childhood education length.In the countryside, students whose materal eudcation level is higher and earlychildhood education length is longer show less problem behaviors than studentswhose materal eudcation level is lower and early childhood education length is shorterin the second semester.In the countryside, students whose paternal eudcation level is lower and earlychildhood education length is longer show more positive social behaviors, closeteacher-student relationships and popular peer relationships, and show less conflictingteacher-student relationships than students whose paternal eudcation level is lowerand early childhood education length is shorter. In the second semester, the Chinesescores of students whose paternal eudcation level is lower and early childhoodeducation length is shorter are higher.From the above, early childhood education experience and family characters havea positive impact on children’s school adjustment in the city and in the countryside.Attention should be paid to improving the quality of kindergarten education and itsinfluence to family education.