Research On Children’s Playfulness In Kindergarten Science Corner Activities

In recent years,game-related research has extensively involved in the five major areas of early childhood education.Among them,there have been a series of studies on children ’s playfulness performance in drama activities,mathematics area activities,mathematical collective education activities,listening and speaking games,role games,building block games and sports games.In different types of games and activities,children’s playfulness performances also vary.In order to further expand the research field and enrich the series of research results,the researchers used the corner activity of the kindergarten science area as an entry point to analyze the overall status of children’s playfulness performance,the specific performance of each dimension,gender and age differences in the science area corner activities.On this basis,the potential influencing factors are analyzed,and improvement measures are proposed,in order to provide a certain reference and reference for the kindergarten teachers to carry out scientific corner activities and related teaching practices.In this study,a total of 324 children(108 small and medium classes,162 male and female,1: 1 male to female ratio)in three public kindergartens in X District,Chongqing City were selected as the research objects.In 27 science corner activities(including science experiments,science games,science and technology production or inventions,and planting and feeding 4 types of activities),324 video samples of children’s playfulness performance,9 teachers with class and 30 Interview records of children.The research tool refers to the overall structure of Barnet’s "Children’s Playability Scale",combined with the pre-observation of the performance status of children in the corner of the scientific area,the guidance of tutors and other experts,and the final revision includes physical spontaneity,social spontaneity,and cognitive spontaneity.Sex,obvious pleasure,and sense of humor The 19-item "Children’s playfulness Performance Scale in Science Corner Activities" in 5 dimensions,after the preliminary test to ensure that the scale has good reliability and validity,use the scale as the basis for the evaluation tool The specific operation evaluation shows that the playfulness performance of 324 children in the science corner activities is graded one by one.For the data collected by the evaluation method,the researchers used SPSS24.0 statistical software for analysis,and finally concluded the research conclusions as follows:In general,the playfulness performance of children in the corner activities of the Science Zone is at a moderately upper level.Among them,the physical spontaneous dimension score ranks first,and the behavior is relatively active;the social spontaneous dimension score is moderately high,and the sense of cooperation needs to be strengthened;the cognitive spontaneous dimension score is relatively middle,and the ability to think and explore needs to be improved;the obvious pleasant dimension score is generally,Happiness needs to be enhanced;the score of the sense of humor has the lowest score,and attention needs to be improved.In terms of gender differences,there is a significant gender difference in the overall score of the playability of the children in the science corner activities.In the five dimensions and each sub-item,the male and female children have three dimensions: social spontaneity,cognitive spontaneity,and sense of humor.There is no significant difference in the sub-items,but there is a significant gender difference in the sub-item of "spontaneous body gross motor coordination ability" in the spontaneous dimension of the body and the sub-item of "the interest of children in activities" in the obvious pleasure dimension;In terms of age difference,there are extremely significant differences in the overall scores of the playability of children of all ages in the science corner activities.Among them,the overall performance scores of children in small classes were significantly lower than those in middle classes and large classes,and the overall scores of children’s games in middle classes were significantly lower than those in large classes.Among the five major dimensions,the overall research results of the "body spontaneity" and "cognitive spontaneity" dimensions are consistent with the overall situation.The "social spontaneity","obvious pleasure" and "humor" dimensions are mainly reflected in the scores of small children’s playfulness performance Compared with middle class and large class,there was no significant difference in the scores of playfulness performance of children in middle class and large class.Based on the statistical analysis results of 324 children’s playfulness performances in the science corner activities of three public kindergartens in ABC,District X,Chongqing City,and the observation of the science corners of each class in the actual investigation process,9 interviews with class teachers and 30 children,The researchers explored several aspects of the science corner ring creation space,material delivery,matching of children’s ability and activity difficulty,activity content,activity time schedule and teacher’s guidance and countermeasures,which may affect children’s participation in activities and their playfulness performance in activities Potential factors,which are manifested in the inferiority of the regional corner ring creation platform and the limited operating space;the slow update of materials and the lack of outstanding exploration requirements;the difficulty of activities and the ability of children,the pleasant experience is hindered;Limitations;low activity frequency and short time,participation interest is suppressed;teachers are afraid of poor guidance and evaluation,and children’s attitudes and moods are affected in six aspects.Furthermore,the following restructuring suggestions were targeted: based on science,rationally set up extended child activity spaces;guided by fun,optimized materials to meet children’s desire to explore;using joy as a link,balancing difficulty and paying attention to children’s happy emotional experience;diversified Turning into an indicator,taking into account innovation and broadening the scope of children’s cognition;taking flexibility as the criterion,maneuvering time to enhance children’s interest in exploration;with positivity as the guide,timely guidance and correction of children’s learning attitude.In order to help teachers continue to improve the effectiveness of science corner activities,and enhance the interest of children to participate in science corner activities.