The Study On The Development And Utilization Of The Ethnic Culture Curriculum Resources In Northwest Ethnic Regions Of China

Ethnic Culture, which is the working production of every ethnic group in its long-term life and work, possesses the material advantages on curriculum development in ethnic regions. In ethnic minority regions, how to develop and use the ethnic curriculum resources to promote the ethnic children to develop scientifically and healthily has become an urgent need to be addressed. This study selected the teachers in nine Hui and Tibetan kindergartens in Tianzhu County in Gansu Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. etc as the object, used questionnaires, interviews, documents and other research methods to investigate the status of the development and utilization of the ethnic culture curriculum resources in northwest ethnic regions of China, hoping to put forward recommendations for reference on the development of the ethnic culture curriculum resources.The study found that the majority of kindergartens have carried out the development and utilization of ethnic culture, which are mainly the adopting ethnic language and part of ethnic culture and are implemented by means of designing ethnic language curriculum of kindergarten as well as infiltrating in classes by teachers. The study also found that the existence of the following questions on development of the ethnic culture curriculum resources: most of the ethnic culture curriculum resources are in idle state; The teachers lack the comprehensive knowledge and ability to develop the curriculum resources; The development of the ethnic culture curriculum resources is short of the external support, the management system, and the parents, community participation. This study holds that the reasons for the above problems are as follows: ignoring the role of promotion of the ethnic culture curriculum resources on early childhood development; Lacking trainings of teachers on ethnic culture curriculum resources; The system concept of the development of the ethnic culture curriculum resources hasn't been formed.In view of the problems above, this study put forward following corresponding countermeasures:1.Correcting the concept to develope and utilize the ethnic culture curriculum resources effectively.2.Strengthening early childhood teachers'training to enhance their awareness and abilities of integrating different courses in their kindergartens.3.Strengthening the multi-exchange to obtain the broad support of the community.