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Preschool education is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to pedagogy. The basic study period is four years, and the degree of education is awarded.
This major trains compound talents with good ideological and moral quality and solid professional knowledge in preschool education, who can engage in teaching support, research and management in teaching support institutions, education administrative departments and other related institutions.
Preschool education and teaching should adhere to the guidance of Marxism, take the development needs of China's national political, economic and cultural construction as the basic principle, take the positioning and characteristics of China's higher education as the reference framework, and take industry standards and social needs as the guidance to cultivate students with firm and correct political direction, noble moral quality and good scientific and humanistic quality.
Senior professionals with international vision, systematic mastery of basic knowledge, basic theories, basic skills and methods necessary for educational science and this major, strong spirit of educational entrepreneurship and innovation, practical ability and management ability, and capable of teaching, management and research in educational management institutions at all levels.
The curriculum system mainly includes theoretical courses, practical courses and graduation thesis (design). Theoretical courses consist of general education courses, professional basic courses and professional direction courses. General education courses include university public courses, innovation and entrepreneurship education courses and related humanities and social sciences, science and engineering courses and art education courses.
Professional basic course is the basic theory and method course of preschool education. Specialized courses are the main courses and specialized courses of preschool education; Practical courses include educational probation, educational practice, educational practice, educational investigation, educational investigation and so on. Graduation thesis (design) includes academic papers, investigation reports, research reports, etc.
Colleges and universities should reasonably set up innovation and entrepreneurship credits, establish a system of accumulation and conversion of innovation and entrepreneurship credits, explore how to convert students' innovative experiments, publishing papers, obtaining patents, and starting their own businesses into credits, and identify students' participation in project research and project experiments as classroom learning.
Colleges and universities can choose some knowledge units that reflect the frontier of disciplines, school characteristics and local characteristics to offer elective courses, so as to promote teachers to integrate international frontier academic development, latest research results and practical experience into classroom teaching.
The curriculum structure should cover the main knowledge units and knowledge points of the professional knowledge system. It is necessary to clearly define the scope and quantity of elective courses to ensure the selectivity of courses. Conditional colleges and universities can carry out domestic (foreign) student exchanges, various forms and levels of joint training or bilingual teaching in China.