(1) observation is a research method for researchers to investigate students or educational phenomena purposefully and systematically with the help of their own sensory organs and other auxiliary tools.
(2) Investigation is a research method in which teachers collect information around an educational phenomenon through questionnaires, talks and discussions, and make quantitative and qualitative analysis of the obtained resources, point out the existing problems and put forward educational suggestions.
(3) Experimental method is a research method in which teachers control certain conditions and change certain educational factors in a planned way according to the purpose of research, so as to examine the causal relationship between each factor and the results.
(4) case study method is a kind of research method that teachers use observation, investigation and homework analysis to conduct a comprehensive and systematic study on individual children in the class, so as to prompt the universal law of children's development.
(5) Action research method refers to a research method in which teachers focus on practical problems in pre-school education situations, cooperate with experts and scholars or other relevant personnel, and reflect while learning in this situation to solve problems.
Preschool pedagogy is a branch of pedagogy, which studies the laws of preschool children's education. The research on preschool education in socialist society in China includes the general principles of preschool education for children aged 3-6, the tasks and principles of kindergarten education, the contents and methods of preschool education, and the requirements and contents of preschool family education.
The task of preschool education is to summarize the experience of preschool education in China, study the theory of preschool education, introduce the theory and practice of preschool education abroad, and explore the law and future development trend of preschool education in China.
Preschool pedagogy is a branch of science and pedagogy, which studies the laws of preschool children's education. Pre-school educators have summed up their own pre-school education experience and absorbed foreign beneficial experience, and have done a lot of work in educational practice and scientific research, further revealing the rules of pre-school education scientifically.