Research On The Status Quo And Strategy Of Country Kindergarten's Mixed-age Education

It has been showed that the Mix-aged education pattern offers children a more human ecological education environment since it can stimulates many aspects of the children's progress such as social skills, sensibility and perception. So, as the phenomenon of Sing-child socialization become more prominent and tend to be more concerned than before, many urban kindergartens start an attempting of this education pattern.Compared to those in the urban areas, the country kindergartens are more restricted to employ this Mix-aged pattern passively on account of those objective factors such as the source of students, the quality of educators, space, etc. This study is based on the actuality presented above and the purpose is to propose more feasible ideas through a thorough study and practice.According to a deep analysis based on this study, the meaning of employment of this Mix-aged pattern in country kindergartens just in that it can relieve the shortage of space and labor. However, there is still a distance from the original purpose which meant that the children of different ages should be educated to be more cooperative and benefit best from it when they were in the same class provided their different experience and ability are taken full advantages of. Here are the details: The country educators lack a proper idea and recognition on this Mix-aged education pattern; The leaders fail to establish an aim which can break through the restriction from the traditional education pattern ;The context selection of this pattern is not so adaptable; There is still a same age trend of the children during the course of the application of this pattern; The backwardness of the evaluation ideal do exists ;The shortage of powerful qualifications and funds make it hard for the country kindergartens to apply this education pattern.Considering the actuality of the country kindergartens' Mix-aged education and its nature, this study has made a deep research based on the following aspects of the Mix-aged education pattern: The innovation ideal, the aim-establishment, content selection, implement, evaluation ideals, and the professional training of the country teachers .And, finally, there are some relevant feasible Strategies.