Research On Quality Of Kindergarten’s Facilities Based On Children’s Perspectives

Since 80 th, doing child research from children’s perspectives has been a new research paradigm. In the field of kindergarten quality, even though children’s perspectives paradigm has arisen, a systematic and deep-going research on children’s opinions towards the quality of kindergarten facility is still in need. Considered that children’s perspectives are of significant value in creating a supporting environment, it is certainly worth to investigate on this issue,ultimately promoting the quality of kindergarten facility.This research is based on previous studies and a large number of initial observation and interview. Combining random sampling and purposive sampling, 32 5-6 years old kids were choosed to report and explain their degree of satisfaction towards facilities which they frequently use. By analyzing the 90,000 words or so interview record and numerous first hand observation data, this research sumerized the quality of kindergarten facilities in children’s perspectives, and induced 7 factors in children’s perspectives towards quality of kindergarten facility. The research show that:1. When evaluating the quality of kindergarten facilities, children take the degree of difficulty as well as function as important factors; less important factors include physical character, allocation quantity, service and clean, opportunities and allowable time.2. In view of children’s evaluation of quality, kindergarten facilities could be ranked as:care facilities, outdoor facilities, activity area facilities and wall decoration.3. In children’s perspectives, the difficulty of most outdoor and activity area facilities are suitable while that of wall decoration is too high; on account of the effectiveness or sufficiency of function, kindergarten facilities could be ranked as: care facilities, outdoor facilities, activity area facilities and wall decoration for another time; even though the impact of less important factors are quite insignificant, they basicly lead to children’s unsatisfaction.Based on these findings and further discussion, the following advices are propounded:construct a challengable environment which can allowed all children finding what is suitable to their own level, reduce decoration and build a utilitarian environment, respect children’s play and provide them sturdily activity facilities, return time and opportunity to children with a on-limitied environment, understand children’s interests and increase children’s positive memory,reflect on children ‘s experience and improve environment accordingly after observe and listen to them.