A Comparative Study Of Chinese And American Games In Kindergarten

Play space of kindergarten is the main site for the play of children and has important influence on the play activity of children. In this study, the researcher uses the concept of boundary, displacement, scale and layout, using the perspective of spatial analysis to study the play space of kindergarten under the background of different cultures.This study has separately chosen one affiliated kindergarten of college from East China and South America as research cases. The paper has mainly studied the play space in one classroom of two kindergartens. The information of this paper was mainly collected by observation and interview. The researcher collects the data of space layout and space usage of two classes. A comparative analysis was made for the play space of classrooms of two classes to figure out the common points and differences of the play space in these two kindergartens.The common points of the play space in two kindergartens are that they are both institutionalized space, and the child scaled is the common concern in the creation of play space; and the play space also has dynamic characteristic. The research has found that the two kindergartens have different degrees of institutionalization which are mainly represented as the differences of fixed site, activity routine, body distance, centralization of play space, penetration degree of area boundary and the interaction between classes. Besides, the play spaces of two kindergartens also have the different degrees of the attention to the creation of language environment, the utility rate of space, and the child scaled used in the classroom.This paper has made introspection, discussion and analysis on the child scaled in the creation of play space, institutionalized play space and spatial culture. At the end of the study, the researcher reflects the representation of the object of study, the data collection methods, and this research paper writing.