Research On The Body Of Young Children In Teacher-child Interaction

The body is closely related to our perception,experience,exploration and practice.It is the starting point of all activities and the medium for human beings to get along with themselves,others and the world.In the stage of early childhood education,children’s body can not be ignored: whether it is the development of kindergarten education activities,or the internalization and growth of children’s experience,it is inseparable from the body.Therefore,the body not only becomes the significance knot of educational practice organization and construction,but also a window for us to understand children’s living state in the kindergarten.At present,most of the existing discussions about children’s body focus on health education,physical activities and sports games,most of them are still concerned about the body as a physiological state,and there are few discussions about the deep significance and actual situation of children’s body.At the same time,the discussion about children’s body mostly stays on the level of theoretical speculation,and there is little in-depth practical research on the real education scene.Therefore,this study takes Merleau Ponty’s phenomenology of body as the theoretical perspective,selects the educational scene of teacher child interaction,observes children’s physical behavior in the interaction,summarizes the role of children’s body in educational activities,analyzes children’s physical situation and the reasons behind the situation,and tries to put forward relevant educational suggestions and strategies,so as to promote the returning of children’s body in educational philosophy and practice.This study mainly discusses from the following four aspects: firstly,from the theoretical basis,it summarizes the background of Merleau Ponty’s body phenomenology,and focuses on the body connotation from its theoretical perspective:the unity,subjectivity,inter body,situation and expressiveness of the body;then it analyzes the pedagogical implication of children’s body,and reveals the theoretical perspective of the study The connection with the research object and goal.Secondly,through the coding and analysis of children’s body behavior in teacher child interaction,we found that children mainly have three typical body expressions: speech,eyes and gestures.At the same time,children’s body also plays an indispensable role in education,such as the carrier of cognition,the window of emotion,the link of relationship,the object of discipline and the symbol of meaning.Thirdly,based on the analysis of children’s body expression and body role in teacher child interaction,combined with the body characteristics of body phenomenology,we found that children’s body is in a delicate and contradictory situation: between active and passive,reversible and unidirectional,open and closed,freedom and discipline,like a pendulum;and it analyzes the situation of children’s body The second reason is that the tradition of body and mind dichotomy and the voice of body subject,the confinement of class system and the pressure of external system,as well as the suppression of adult culture and the awakening of children’s culture are the reasons for this contradictory situation.Finally,combined with the theoretical perspective of body phenomenology and children’s actual physical situation and its reasons,the research mainly starts from the physical characteristics,and puts forward the path to let children’s body return to education by reconstructing the concept of body,returning to the world of life,promoting the dialogue between teachers and children,resetting education time、space and regulations,enriching education situation and cherishing children’s culture.