A Case Study On Implementation Of Kindergarten Multicultural Curriculum In Minority Region

With the development of era, our society is increasingly taking on a look of multi-culture. Multicultural education is an international movement dating from 1960s and 1970s, and has developed into an educational idea in the past century in the West. Multicultural curriculum is an important approach to multicultural education and inevitably a choice for preschool education in the minority areas of our country. Focusing on the implementation of multicultural curriculum in the minority areas, this study takes multicultural curriculum implementation of C kindergarten in Miao's and Dong's as a case to investigate and analyze the multicultural curriculum implementation by using multiple methods, such as documentation,analysis,interview,observation and so on. On this basis, theoretical reflection on the implementation of multicultural curriculum in the minority regions is done and some corresponding suggestions are advanced so that the study can be helpful to other researches theoretically and practically on the theoretical construction of kindergarten multicultural curriculum in minority areas of our country.This dissertation is divided into five parts.Part One is the introduction, which synoptically introduces the background, issues and purposes of this study, and then combs relevant researches home and abroad, clarifies the thoughts and design methods of this research.Part Two is the theoretical exploration, including the basic theory of kindergarten multicultural curriculum; the definition of multicultural curriculum in our minority areas. Such theoretical exploration is expected to establish the foundation theory for this study and give theoretical propping for the study.Part Three is a case of study. The author goes to a C kindergarten in autonomous region of Miao and Dong to observe and investigate the status quo of the multicultural curriculum implementation from aspects of orientation of the Curricular goals, selection of Curricular contents and approaches of curriculum implementation, followed by the analysis and description of factors affecting curriculum implementation, in the hope of gaining the interpretative understandings on multicultural curriculum implementation in C kindergarten.Part Four is theoretical reflection. Based on interpretative understandings in case study and relevant theory, this thesis reflects the condition of kindergarten multicultural curriculum in our minority areas from goals setting,contents selection,implementation model construction, and propose some suggestions about setting up multicultural idea, cultivating teacher's course accomplishment, establishing curriculum guarantee mechanism and so on.Part five is the epilogue, which prospects the implementation of the multicultural curriculum.