A Study Of The Conflicts Between Chinese Teachers And Foreign Teachers In The Kindergarten Under Education Internationalization

In the interest of Education Internationalization, more and more Kindergartens are introducing foreign teachers to cooperate together with Chinese teachers. Kindergartens hope that by introducing Foreign teachers, they can bring new ideas and teaching theories in education. They hope it will help Kindergartens go with the tide of Education Internationalization and world development. When a new practice emerges, there will always be problems and difficulties. The conflicts between Chinese teachers and Foreign teachers are typical problems, which need to be solved as soon as possible. My Kindergarten is using the IB curriculum and we introduced Foreign teachers to work with Chinese teachers. There were a lot of problems with cooperation. I hoped that through my study of these problems that I could help to summarize the types and reasons for these conflicts. At the end of my study, I tried to come up with some strategies to help solve these problems.After I studied a large number of academic documents, I discovered that there were a lot of studies in Internationalization of higher education and occupational education but there were less Early Years Childhood Education Internalization. There were studies of the conflicts of cooperation between teachers, but almost no studies of the conflicts between Chinese teachers and Foreign teachers doing transdisciplinary education in Kindergarten.After I confirmed the value of this study, I began my study. I used the case analysis method to do the study. Through questionnaires, I collected a number of typical cases of conflicts between Chinese teachers and foreign teachers. These cases were from Chinese teachers, Foreign teachers and Principals. Through these cases, I analyzed the characteristics of the mentality of teacher’s behaviors and concluded the reasons of conflicts. The main reasons were: cultural difference, communication problems, different education theories, character differences and professional degree difference.At the end of the study, I tried to suggest some strategies to cope with the conflicts between Chinese teachers and Foreign teachers, based on the situation now in the Kindergarten. The strategies I suggested were: Build a common school vision; Introduce culture differences to both Chinese teachers and Foreign teachers; Define the school’s educational theory and introduce the school’s curriculum to new teachers; Improve Foreign teachers’ Chinese ability and Chinese teachers’ English ability as well as the interpretation and translation ability of Chinese English teachers’. I Hope in the future, these practices and strategies will help to solve the conflicts between Chinese teachers and Foreign teachers.