Multicultural Elementary Education In Kindergarten

Multicultural education is a philosophy of Enlightenment. It asserts that children should be exposed to national culture education in order to enhance their ability of better understanding and appreciating national culture, and learning to respect for other culture, thus their senses of pride on their own national culture are greatly heightened. As an important part of culture, holiday also contains educational resources for multicultural education. It has great significance to do research on multicultural education, by means of holiday education in kindergarten. After investigating the characteristics of holiday education in Kindergarten, and analyzing its problems and influening factors, this study aims to build a system of holiday education in kindergarten, which is guided by multicultural educational philosophy, thus promotes common progress of teachers, parents and children.The dissertation reviews the literature on the theme of multicultural education and holiday education in kindergarten, and analyzes the characteristics and shortcomings of these studies and interprets its enlightenment for the study. The paper also introduces the theory of multicultural education, Bio-ecological theory and the theory of Social constructivist. and expound its enlightenment for this research.The research using questionnaire-survey, interviews, observation, literature investigates whether holiday education of the24kindergartens in three cities of S province reflects the situation of multicultural education. The result not only reflects holiday education of kindergarten on goal, content, methods, approaches, evaluation and other aspects not fully reflecting the concept of multicultural education, and also to some extent reflects the factors affecting holiday education from internal kindergarten, family, community and social environment.The study, based on the result and problems explores and tries to build action research framework by using holiday education of kindergarten as a platform for multicultural education. Through theoretical study, literacy learning for teachers as a precondition, try to explore the Systematic system of holiday education including objectives, content, implementation and evaluation of holiday education. The results showed that compared with not conducting action research, teachers, parents, children have been significant progress and improvement in all aspects. This study also analyzes the influencing factors of holiday education in action research, and explore these aspects, including educational belief of teachers, literacy of teachers, preparations of holiday teaching, management of kindergarten, family, community, and society affects holiday education.Finally, the research puts forward educational proposals for kindergarten, family, community, society, and specifies characteristics and lack of the research and provides direction for future research.