Pre-school Children's Media Literacy Education In Image Interpretation Ability Research

In the world, media literacy education has been more and more concerned about national education workers. How to cultivate and improve minor's media literacy so that minors are able to obtain the correct understanding, evaluation and constructive access to the mass media resources, has become a target of global media literacy education. Image is widespread in newspapers, magazines, books, television, movies, multimedia courseware, Internet and so on. The child's survival World is full of image. Children's understanding of the outside world, to a large extent depends on the understanding of the photographic image. Image-Media are frequently accessible to pre-school children, which disseminates a great deal of information by its size and scope, making cultivating pre-school children's ability to interpret image an urgent task..This study elaborates the relation between the ability to interpret images and the media literacy education of pre-school children. Pre-school children living in the world's media should have the ability to interpret images. Cultivating this ability embodies the thought of the media literacy education of pre-school children. Subsequently, the study makes a survey about the present situation about the ability to interpret image, such as the images awareness, understanding, attitudes and values, behavior choice of the situation. The study proposes a training mode of pre-school children's ability to interpret image. The mode is divided into two phases: phase image viewing and integrated thematic stage. This two-stage are independent but interrelated. Image viewing stage makes emotional preparation and experience for a later stage of the comprehensive thematic activities and integrated thematic activities help children link images with the reality so as to get the re-observation of video works and achieve deeper awareness. In order to verify the validity of this mode, the study takes the children of River Sea kindergarten as practice object and designs the specific teaching to help children. After the end of the practice, the study makes the analysis of the performance of children in the classroom and the results of interviews with teachers after school.