origin

Owen founded the first preschool in 18 16. Early childhood education institutions are mostly organized by philanthropists and industrialists, but in essence they are just charitable social welfare institutions. At that time, kindergarten was called "a new college of character formation".

The most influential kindergarten in the world was founded by German educator Froebel. From 65438 to 0837, Froebel boldly recruited a group of children in Brandenburg, Germany, and established the world's first organization to educate preschool children. In this organization, Froebel neither gives monotonous drills to children nor punishes them.

Children are often taken to nature, and sometimes they work together in the garden or indoors. He pays attention to cultivating children's practical ability and the ability of group activities. After years of experiments, Froebel proposed that such a school park should be called "kindergarten", and the name of the kindergarten has since spread.

China's earliest kindergarten thought appeared in Datong Book written by Kang Youwei during the Reform Movement. Later, the Qing government promulgated the first systematic bourgeois school system in China.

The education system stipulates foster families for children aged 2-5, and the earliest one is Wuchang Model Primary School (1903). In addition to government-run, foreign missionaries and private kindergartens in China also appeared. By 19 10, the number of kindergarten students in China has reached1520,000.

There are two kinds of kindergartens in economic nature: one is kindergartens run by the government education system, kindergartens run by special industries, kindergartens affiliated to public universities, and parks run by enterprises and institutions; The other is a private kindergarten run by individual operators.