Research On The Educational View Of Children's Songs

As a form of language art, children's songs are the literature work with which children firstly contact. No matter from the children themselves, or from education, children's songs are of great value and significance, but in the current society, children's songs are ignored or categorized, which result in the crisis of education value of children's songs, while the children's songs on the poor quality or good quality will give children a far-reaching impact. Based on this, this thesis focuses on the educational view of children's songs and studies the value orientation of the educational view of children's songs.This study uses the method of content analysis firstly to make a quantifying research toward the theme of children's song and does"careful reading"to the educational view of children's songs on the basis of quantifying research. At the beginning, this study starts from the contents of children's songs giving attention to the educational functions of children's songs ,`and divides children's songs into : knowledge-based children's songs, games-based of children's songs, standardizing children's songs, upbringing style of children's songs and lyric-type children's songs, and fractionizes the theme of every type of children's songs carefully again , and then basing on these makes an analysis to the education view of children's songs.From the results of the study, knowledge-based children's songs, which give priority to the natural knowledge-based children's songs, are the largest proportion of the whole children's songs. Games-based of children's songs advocate the educational view that games are taken as basic activities in the education of children, especially the exercise game of children's songs which be included in the games-based of children's songs. The young children both gain the joyous feelings in pursuit of language rhythm and the development of language and mentality from the language games of children's songs, in particular, the riddle -type children's songs reflect the view of developing the young children's mentality in games.These styles of children's songs such as tongue twister, antistrophic songs , asking and answering songs, reversal songs and jokes songs, which reflect the quality of both games and education, as well as the character of national culture, are the inheritance of our country's folk songs. Generally speaking, standardizing children's songs express a kind of obeying authority, for example, the tendency of the layout and content about the theme of politeness of children's songs in small class, is the exhibit of traditional courtesy culture which demand children study courtesy from small age. The purpose of the tendency is that the adult hope children become a person adapted to society. Lyric-type children's songs let children gain the the aesthetic education through attaching importance to children's imagination, the education views of lyric-type children's songs in the theme of love mainly express the love between mother and children. the style of children's songs pay attention to take children's physical development as the primary task of education of kindergarten.From the overall perspective, in the view of children's education, we can see the traditional views and modern views of education. In the children's songs we can see that they are influenced by the results of the traditional thinking of Chinese "authority". At the same time ,the thoughts of focusing on scientific knowledge, the noumenon of beauty in children's songs and the education of beauty and the standard of children that embody in the education view of children's songs are just the call of times'swerve in the modernization of education. Finally, from the whole to see, we can find the research of the view of education holds the education contents of morality, intellect, physical training and virtue, which actually is the whole development of education in cultivating of human thought and reflects the combination of the traditional and modern education.