Mr. Chen Heqin, a pioneer of preschool education in China, once pointed out that the kindergarten environment is "everything that children can touch and stimulate". However, preschool education researchers from the northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia put forward requirements for the creation and layout of the environment. They believe that the environment is a "container that can support society, exploration and learning". It is precisely because the environment is the place where children live and contact every day that children's physical and mental development, social development and personality development are all affected by it.
Reggio's educators believe that "space has educational connotation, that is, it contains educational information, stimulates interactive experience and constructive things." The success of education depends on whether all elements in the environment have educational elements, whether it is conducive to children's knowledge construction in the process of "doing" and so on.
Therefore, the environment is by no means an ornament, nor is it just a pile of hardware equipment, but education is interdependent, inclusive and interactive, and they are an inseparable community. As a kindergarten closely related to children's growth, it affects all the conditions for children's physical and mental development, that is, the educational environment of kindergartens. Therefore, the kindergarten environment plays an important role in the daily educational activities of kindergartens. These conditions mainly include materialization and ideology, that is, the material environment and spiritual environment of kindergartens. In the creation of kindergarten's own environment, we should constantly pursue the educational orientation of combining material environment with spiritual environment, that is, "the design of environment tends to combine all things related to education."
The main service object of kindergarten environment is children, who are the future and hope of mankind and the masters of the future environment. The environment should be safe and environmentally friendly to ensure the health of children. In the renovation project of kindergartens, materials with high environmental protection should be used. Because children are vulnerable to various infections and infectious diseases during their physical development, the products used in kindergartens must be environmentally friendly. Safe use: This means that the creator is very familiar with kindergarten activities, and understands the age characteristics, living habits and work processes of children. Therefore, it is foreseeable to take protective measures during the operation, so that every child can study and live in a safe, relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.
In order to make the environment truly become the third teacher of children, it is necessary to design the environment. There are two ways to design the environment: one is to eliminate those factors that have a negative impact on children's growth, tap and use those factors that have a positive impact on children's growth, and reorganize these positive factors to better promote children's development. The second is to create a good environment so that children can live in a broader, more conducive to their own growth and full of vitality without being restricted by the original environment.
Kindergarten graphic design should be open and space design should be interesting. In the past kindergarten design, independent and self-contained activity unit models were always combined, while modern preschool education must respect children's autonomy and spontaneity and try to satisfy their interests and psychological desires. The organization of kindergarten environmental education content must be based on positive guidance, emphasizing beautiful things and phenomena in the environment, so that children can fully experience that they are children of the earth and a member of the ecosystem under the influence of natural beauty and happy participation.
When introducing the surrounding environmental problems, we must focus on the effective solutions, especially the important role of people's good behavior habits in improving the environment, so that children can understand the impact of their actions on the environment. Kindergarten is a paradise for children and a place where children grow up physically and mentally. Kindergarten design requires architects to think with childlike innocence everywhere, design an excellent environmental space that integrates childlike innocence, beautification, education and greening, create a place full of surprises and fantasies for children, and enable children to gain experiences beneficial to physical and mental development in many ways. This is the original intention of Tongnuo designers and the source of design inspiration.
The role of environment in preschool education is to create and design environmental education according to the educational content, so that children can give full play to their autonomy and start their lives in the interaction with the environment, thus promoting their development in the expected direction. Through the realization of the general goal, we will strive to create an indoor environment with reasonable layout, outstanding functions, environmental protection and safety, and children's interest.