I Am An Actor - The Experience And Construction Of Everyday Life In Kindergartens

Children are individuals who socialize. Through socialization, children develop positively in all aspects. Kindergarten is considered to be one of the main fields for children to socialize. Most people focus on children's passiveness in socializing but fail to appreciate how kindergarten life can make a child active during participation and develop positively. The study is based on the angle of view of new sociology of childhood where childhood's existence is known as "child is child". The ethnographic research method of observations and interviews was used as the main means of finding out the true kindergarten daily life through the eyes of a child. The child's way of thinking, wisdom, strength, and actions highlights the social role of child-activist.The study was observed in a period of one year. The result showed that life time span of children in the kindergarten activities ranges according to the logic of the child's rational thinking and perceptual experience with academics which describe and analyze life space; rule life; and interpersonal relations dimension. In the sealing and fixing space adults plan, child can experience a space of good and bad, through "guards and colonize" efforts to construct. In the precise and fragmented time arranged by adults, child felt long and short of time, by "compliance with the extension" in the mediation game.In the adult standard setting the child had to experience the rules, such as to stay in position and to follow all the rules that has been settled without any complain or disobey. During an interaction between teacher and child, the facials of the teacher can define strictness and friendliness of a teacher which causes a child to unequally retreat with different teachers. In side of peer interaction, a child can develop a symbol of weakness and strength by showing different defensive and offensive strategy respectively. This is why the study is based on original events which appear in the real situation during the study period of one year and shows what a child thinks in terms of words and actions. All these explain the positive role of kindergarten daily life.From the individual sense, every child is a hero of his own life. From a group sense, there are different heroes that have same role-the activists, which they experience and construct.