The Research On The Kindergarten Curriculum Power Operation

Curriculum power is the foundation of curriculum management and all curriculum activities should be implemented through the curriculum power operation. The research on kindergarten curriculum power operation is a response to the world educational democracy campaign that calls for diversified subjects, democratic and scientific curriculum decision in curriculum power operation, and a natural result of the theoretic scarcity and puzzles in practice of the kindergarten curriculum power operation. Therefore, it’s an inevitable issue to optimize the curriculum power operation in the kindergarten curriculum management.This research, with case study of Kindergarten A, B, C in city Y from the perspectives of sociology, management science and pedagogy, adopts a combined research methodology of literature review, interview and observation. Following the routine of explaining the theory, investigating the practice, and providing solution and advice, this research conducts a theoretic analysis and a practical investigation, discusses the power operation condition, reveals its mechanism, finds out the problems in kindergarten course function, and provides strategy of optimizing curriculum power operation in order to guide the kindergarten curriculum practice.Research results can be concluded as following:1. The kindergarten curriculum power operation should abide by the value appeal of democracy, justice, efficiency and win-win.2. The educational administration, the kindergarten director, teachers, curriculum experts, parents and the children constitute the subject of the power operation, while the targeted group, curriculum resources, and curriculum events make of the object. Power operation in the kindergarten curriculum is usually organized in meetings and files. Through analyzing the two actions, we found that the discourse power was decided by the subject’s role and influence among the children. The meeting spatial order and the voice order also imply the difference among subjects. The administration plays an important role in the curriculum power and extends too much interference to the professional power.3. The kindergarten curriculum power operation relies on the course decision, design, implementation and evaluation. The operation mechanism can be classified as making the decision and not making the decision. The decision power is centralized to the kindergarten director while the teachers’power is limited. The professional’s power is influenced by the administration. Parents’power is marginalized and the children’s power is ignored. The mechanism in the curriculum designing is allocating the course resources and it exhibits a character of hierarchy. The local administration department, its affiliated educational academy, further teaching academy exert great influence on the curriculum design. Within the kindergarten, the director and the teaching leader have a great power on course design while the teachers’power is limited. The operation mechanism of curriculum implementation is resource deployment and curriculum supervision. During implementation, the relation between teachers and children is inter-relied. The operation mechanism of curriculum evaluation is incentive, but the incentive tends to associate too much with utilitarianism and mainly focuses on external incentive, in which the subject and the form of evaluation are unitary.4. There are three problems in the power operation:the biological structure is unbalance; the educational administration power seizes the central power position; and the weak subjects’power is marginalized. These major influential factors are individuals, kindergarten organizational culture and curriculum policy, etc..5. The optimization of the curriculum power function can be achieved by shaping the power subjects’boundary and responsibility with the core value of justice, creating the organizational culture with the spirit of democracy and freedom, and establishing the curriculum policy with the gist of coordination and supervision.This research consists of seven chapters:The introduction provides the background and value to interpret choosing kindergarten curriculum power operation as the research object, after which the purpose, the meaning and the research logic and methodology are showed.The first chapter theoretic foundation of kindergarten curriculum power operation analyzes the theoretic foundation of the kindergarten curriculum power function from the perspectives of sociology, management science and pedagogy. Foucault’s micro power operation mechanism ist the same as the kindergarten curriculum power operation mechanism.The stakeholder theory supports the basis for classifying the power subjects and Taylor’s curriculum model and its transformation provides the analyzing structure for the curriculum power operation process.The second chapter:value appeal of the kindergarten curriculum power operation. This chapter held democracy, justice, efficiency and win-win as the value appeal. Democracy ensures that all stakeholders have the chance into curriculum, which expands the curriculum’s public space. Justice is the cornerstone of the curriculum power to operation in order, avoiding the conflicts and internal consumption caused by unbalanced and privileged power allocation. Efficiency ensures that the power subjects take their respective responsibility, achieving the maximum power operation efficiency. Win-win is the operation purpose and maximizes the subjects’interests.The third chapter:a macro field investigation on the kindergarten curriculum power operation. This research treats the kindergarten as a macro field and from the analysis of the power operation organization (the filed), power structure and the normal power organizing behavior such as meetings and files, revealing the operation condition of curriculum power in the kindergarten as a macro field.The fourth chapter:a micro insight on the kindergarten curriculum power operation. In contract to macro field, the micro filed approach divides the curriculum field into parts. Based on the operation process of curriculum, this research investigates the practicing condition of curriculum stakeholder’s power operation in the four dynamic stages:curriculum decision, curriculum design, curriculum implementation, and curriculum evaluation.The fifth chapter:tracking down the problem of kindergarten curriculum power operation. After the analysis of macro and micro fields in the power operation, this research finds the problem of power operation alienation and then analyzes the influential factors.The sixth chapter:strategy of optimizing kindergarten power operation. Aiming at the problems in power operation, this research provides the strategy of optimizing kindergarten curriculum power operation with an engine system consisting of power management of curriculum actors, optimization of organization environment and curriculum policy.