A Case Study On Mixed-age Education In Country's Kindergarten

With mixed-age education's merit being understood,mixed-age education has been much account of in the word.Many researchers think mixed-age education have more advantages than single-age education.For example,mixed-age can stimulate many aspects of the children's progress such as sociality,cognition and sensibility.Because single-child's sociality development meets some problems,many people think mixed-age education can make up this limitation.So in education field,mixed-age education is adopted initiatively or passively in many kindergartens.So there is much mixed-age education in country's kindergarten.For special national environment, country's kindergarten mixed-age education of is different from the city's.If country's mixed-age education implement well,it will contribute to pre-school education and be in favor of children's development who live in country.But from now few researchers study this field.This research takes out three kindergartens as my study objects from the town of Huang Chuan,and investigates mixed-age education by observation,interview and document,and finds many problems in country's kindergarten mixed-age education, such as teacher's specialty and the level of teaching strategy is very low,the education is more like elementary school,the teacher can't improve children's interaction in teacher-child interaction.So the merit of mixed-age education can't be materialized. There are many reasons to these problems,fox example,uncultured educational conception,lacking understanding and supporting of society.About these problems,the research gives some suggestions:we should try to transform teachers and parents lagging educational conception,built up model country's kindergarten mixed-age education to improve teacher's specialty degree,reinforce the cooperation between kindergarten and family,and increase government's investment.Only this can ensure country's kindergarten mixed-age education development very well.