The Current Concept Of Early Childhood Teachers' Curriculum

The paper investigates the everyday educational activities in kindergarten in China from curriculum, in order to know which kind of curriculum outlook infant teachers accept currently, to look into whether the curriculum outlook is fully embodied in infant teachers' educational behavior.Firstly, through literature analysis, it finds out there are five conceptions of curriculum, such as regarding curriculum as discipline, as activity, as experience, as plan, and as goal, and three views of curriculum, including discipline-centrism curriculum outlook, child-centrism curriculum outlook and society-centrism curriculum, which all influence infant teachers.Secondly, with talking with infant teachers and a survey, it finds out most of the infant teachers will regard curriculum as activity or experience and most of them will accept child-centrism curriculum outlook.Thirdly, by means of observing infant teachers' everyday educational behavior, it finds out that child-centrism curriculum ideas have not being finalized in their instructional behavior, but some traditional curriculum ideas, such as withholding teacher-centered education, paying great attention to knowledge infusion and skill training, claiming to be loyal to the teaching plan and teaching goals, calling for teacher-determined education, still influence infant teachers' instructional actions. As a result, the views of curriculum accepted by infant teachers with their brain are not inconsistent with that embodied in their actions. At the same time, in order to solve these problems, it provides infant teachers with some suggestions, such as withholding child-based education, emphasizing on providing child experience, calling for more flexible instructional activities, increasing child-determined activities, and so on.