A Study Of Relationship Between The Creative Play And The Environment In The Preschool

It is a common phenomenon that people neglect the creativity in our country's preschool's play education, many scholars propose the concept of "creative play", and they advocate that the children should be the master of play and should be given more independence. Currently there is a lack of empirical study on the relationship between the creative play and environment.Those creative play is more about the interaction among the toddler and the play's place, spatial, material, therefore the environment is one important factor that can affect and stimulate the children's play. With the kindergarten being the main place of playing, it is of great practical significance to study the relationship between the creative play and environment in preschool.This research samples 90 children aged 3-5 years from three kindergartens and their environment. We use the self-made observation table that can record the quality of children's creative play and environment to survey and record their creative play and environment's condition, using the SPSS16.0 statistics software package to analyze the data. This research indicated:1,The quality of the sample of children's creative play matches the kindergarten's environment:if the quality of the sample children's creative play is under medium, it is also true with its physical environment and social environment. Compared with the physical environment establishment, the social aspect is more easily neglected. 2,Indoor and outdoor creative play have a high positive correlation with the overall environment, the related coefficient reached 0.805 and 0.813 respectively.The creative play's quality will be enhanced with the improvement of overall environmental quality.3,There is remarkable relationship between the creative play and environment in preschool. Compared with the physical environment, the relationship between the creative play and its social environment that is established by the teacher is more remarkable, and the independence of play explain20% amounts'variation of the creative play, making the biggest contribution. The teacher is a key man that can well integrate the physical environment and the social environment. The physical environment of creative play's can stimulate the children's interest, built good play atmosphere for children, and provide a potential possibility for children's playing. While social environment can inspire creative playing directly and promote its development.Finally, this article proposes a suggestion of establishing physical environment of the creative play's and its social environment, it can provides a instruction on dealing with the relationship between playing and the teaching as well as the establishment of play's environment for our teachers...