The Action Research On Emotional Understanding Competence Promotion Through Thematic-fantasy Play Of5-6Years Old Children In Kindergarten

The world of children is full of emotion; someone even says children are the capture of theemotion. The emotion understanding plays the significant role in children’s growing. It is the maincomponent of the emotion competence; meanwhile, it is also the basis to promote the other parts of theemotion competence. For a long time, emotion understanding is the focus study content of in children’stheory of mind. The studies have demonstrated that the development of emotion understanding is one of themain assignments in children phase, because it can help children to form well mental health, and providethe foundation to form the well social interpersonal relationship, it helps the children’s development ofsocialization. In children phase the emotion understanding progress rapidly, while the play is the mainpattern and approach that the children to learn and to live. The studies have demonstrated thatthematic-fantasy play can prompt the reading comprehension of the children, and to their emotion andfeeling developing it also has the effect of encouragement. Therefore, this research uses thethematic-fantasy play as the medium to prompt the children’s emotion understanding.Basing on the experience of existing research, this research takes the method of action research.In the process of practice the research expect to find the probable education pattern and to form the feasibleeducation program. In order to provide some references to the kindergartens that take the action to promotethe children’s emotion understanding. The research includes the following parts:The first part, as the introduction. In this part, explained the reasons of selection this task, usedthe method of literature to sort out the literature material, and discussed emotion understanding plays animportant role during the children development, also analyzed the educational value of thematic-fantasyplay in children’s emotion understanding development. This part is the base to the following educationalactivities because it provides the theory reference to the thematic-fantasy play to prompt the children’semotion understanding.The second part, research design. Ascertain the research purpose/research thinking/the researchmethod/research tool, the research object and the people in this research. According to the children’sdevelopment status made the full preparations for the specific action research.The third part, take the research scheme into practice. Through the children’s emotion understanding assessment, understand the ability between the children5-6years old who took part in thisresearch and the children without interventions. According to the children’s development status made thefull preparations for the specific action research. The content of thematic-fantasy play in this research focuson the four aspects, glad、sad、angry and scared. According to the four aspects determine the specificeducational activity framework and plan, and put the reservation scheme into implementation. In theprocess of implementation, the researchers proved the feasibility of scheme. Through the cycle ofconstantly implementation、reflection and regulation to perfect the plan. In the end verify the effect ofthematic-fantasy play on children’s emotion understanding, through comparing the participants and notparticipants. The research shows that the thematic-fantasy plays contribute to the promotion of children’semotion understanding abilities. External causes emotional understanding of emotion understanding, basedon belief, emotion regulation, based on emotional clues to understanding and understanding of moralemotion has been very significant improvements.The fourth part, the reflection on action, according to the process of implement about the actionresearch, put summary and some advice. The thematic-fantasy play has a significant role to promote the5-6years old children’s emotion understanding abilities. Through the thematic-fantasy play give some adviceon how to improve children’s emotion understanding. The kindergarten should pay attention to children’semotional development and the motional aspects of education; prepare some facilities to the educationalactivities; provide the necessary theoretical support and opportunity on professional development to theteacher; combine the action of education practice, give some suggestions about the design andimplementation of the thematic-fantasy play. Use the thematic-fantasy play to do the family-kindergartencooperation, do the cooperation to educate children’s good emotion ability.