A Study On Children's Negative Emotion Expression And Teachers' Response Strategies In Middle Class

Emotion is a broad concept,and there are different classifications of negative emotions.In this paper,children's negative emotions refer to three basic negative emotions: anger,sadness and fear.Children's emotional expression is defined as the explicit voice intonation,facial expression and action signals accompanied by a certain emotion.The concept of children's negative emotional expression in this paper is that when children feel sadness,fear,anger,accompanied by voice intonation,facial expression,action signals.Teachers' response strategies are defined as: when teachers observe children's negative emotions,they consciously adopt certain educational methods to deal with them,in order to alleviate children's negative emotions,eliminate the discomfort caused by negative emotions as far as possible,and enable children to participate in normal learning and life activities.Early childhood is the starting point of one's life.Emotional health in early childhood is of great significance to the improvement and development of children's personality,emotional and social development.Teachers play a major role in the growth and development of children.Teachers can promote the good expression of children's negative emotions by using the right way of response.The wrong way of response will hinder the expression of children's emotions.In this study,80 children and teachers in four classes of a kindergarten in Dalian were observed by non-participatory and interview methods.Every Monday to Friday,12 weeks of continuous observation,in order to obtain first-hand real and accurate observation data.In this study,a self-compiled observation record table was used to record the detailed process of children's negative emotional expression events and teachers' strategies.At the same time,we use the self-compiled interview outline-teacher edition,self-compiled interview outline-child edition to interview teachers and children,and supplement the research conclusions.In this study,we draw conclusions on the following three questions.First,we analyze the common causes of children's negative emotions.This study found that there are three common incentives to trigger children's negative emotions,which are caused by others,by the environment,and by themselves.It can also be subdivided into teacher-initiated and peer-initiated.Secondly,the analysis of emotional needs behind children's negative emotional expression.There are three emotional needs for children to express negative emotions: seeking comfort,seeking problem solving and avoiding punishment.Thirdly,with regard to the analysis of teachers' response strategies to children's negative emotions,this study analyses teachers' response modes and existing problems.Finally,this study puts forward three educational suggestions.First,optimize teachers' negative emotional response;second,improve teachers' reflective learning ability;third,learn to carry out emotional education for children...