A Niche Research Of The Kindergarten Activities Of Daily Living Under The Vision Of Curriculum

In this paper, based on the view of ecological "system", "balance", "unity", with the theme of life course, by the using of niche theory, the fundament and realist of niche is researched through aspects of space environment, resource using and function. By analyzing of the children and teachers'behavior in the imbalance state of realized niche in activities of daily living, it reveals effect factors of the imbalance state of realized niche in activities of daily living, and proposes feasible strategies for improving activities of kindergarten daily living.The main content of the paper includes the following three parts:Part I: From the ecological point of view, by putting the activities of daily living into the kindergarten curriculum system and analyzing the fundamental niche of the activities of daily living, this paper rediscovers the position and function of daily life activities in the kindergarten curriculum system.Part II: From the three aspects of space environment, resource using and function, it dynamically shows the imbalance state of realized niche of activities of daily living in the kindergarten. It means the space environment of the kindergarten is single, the breadth of resource using is narrow and the function of educating is lossing. This imbalance state makes a lot of lossing of curriculum resources of kindergarten activities of daily living and it also makes the behavioral deviations of the children in their daily lives. As the result, educators missed many educational opportunities.Part III: The paper analyses the factors that influencing the imbalance state of realized niche in kindergarten activities of daily living. From the system theory point, the imbalance state of realized niche in activities of daily living is caused by a variety of factors, which include people(children, teachers, parents and managers)and the surrounding environment(kindergarten system, social culture)factor. The mutual contacting, reinforcing and restrainting of these factors promote or limit the kindergarten activities of daily life. These factorsPart IV: The feasible strategies for realizing the "totally possible" of the daily living activities has been made. It involves the establish of the view of life and the goals of culturing complete individual, the location of the function of the integration of conservation and education. By take the strategies from the edge to integration, the edge effect of the kindergarten activities of daily living in the ecological sense is achieved.