"Jackie Chan went to heaven and turned into a snake." "Don't let the children lose at the starting line!" Kindergarten, it's really not easy to say I love you, and I can't do without you if I want to say I hate you. How do kindergarten teachers who have had similar experiences and parents who have to face the "reality" realize the persistence and pertinence of the ban on preschool primary education?
From issuing documents to preparing legislation, how can the Ministry of Education completely ban the "primary school of preschool education"? Can the words of scholars and experts make the parents who "win at the starting line" "become buddhas"? Are we changing a flawed educational concept, or are we saying "no" to the occupation that China people have admired most for thousands of years? In this causal cycle, kindergarten teachers seem to be Joan of Arc at the forefront, and thousands of parents in Qian Qian have become the soldiers we want to recruit. They firmly hold a competition without blood and fire and firmly hold the belief that we will find out in a few years.
"Save the children" or "Save yourself!" Where is the pain and injury of "primary school" in early childhood education? What is the way to lose?
key word
Root cause; Harm; A long way to go; Accept or reject
Early childhood education has its unique laws and characteristics. In the process of cultivating children's behavior habits, routines and personalities, playing, caring, guiding, supporting and encouraging are one of the most basic elements and activities, and also the most basic common sense. However, when we face the phenomenon and topic of "primary school" in preschool education, the reasons such as "parents are eager for quick success and instant benefit", "complicated causes" and "private preschool education is driven by interests" seem to lead all the problems to the tendency and viewpoint that we must "criticize", "hate it" and "prohibit it", and add the conclusion that "comprehensive strategies and measures should be taken to correct and correct it. In the end, "everyone is happy", a "historic" phenomenon and topic, seems to have been solved by us overnight.
Phenomenon: In the past or in some places, the entrance examination of "children entering primary school" was implemented: what computing ability, language expression ability, etc., and some primary school teachers treated them differently according to the answers to knowledge questions when freshmen entered school. What does it show?
Some kindergartens or parents regard children's cognitive quantity and highlighting children's external words and deeds as the assessment basis and selection criteria for kindergarten teachers. What does it mean?
In some traditional games, such as "the eagle catches the chicken", is the implication and the influence on children's consciousness and behavior worthy of scrutiny?
First, the root cause analysis
The fundamental reason for the "primary school" of early childhood education is that adults have imposed the "game" rules of social value ranking on children helplessly and mercilessly. For example, some parents in a unit in Yunnan once had the feeling: "Everyone wants to send their children to a better school, but some schools will care about which kindergarten the children enrolled in school graduated from, what their specialties are, and whether their foundation is good." Seeing that other people's children are so-called' preferential treatment', I can only choose to give them' extra meals': English interest classes, pinyin practice classes, etc. In fact, everyone knows what these schools are concerned about. What do these teachers care about? Moreover, some parents regard their children's profound knowledge or expertise as' innate prodigies' or as part of showing off their family superiority, such as what brand name to wear, what imported milk powder to eat, what luxury car to ride, and so on. "In fact, people are incomparable, but a series of so-called external things, such as image, reputation, occupation, income, knowledge, self-cultivation, and even clothing and expression ability, are all necessary factors in ranking social values and the driving force of social competition. Unfortunately, adult society has included young children. While fighting for children, we are actually fighting for ourselves. This is heartless! Another example is the game of "the eagle catches the chicken". I believe everyone has played this game. You can recall in your mind how the game was played. Imagine if there is a law of the jungle in the game, is there a "sheep don't fight with large groups, and people don't punish with the masses"? Is there any suspicion of learning without thinking and giving up independent thinking and action? In ancient times, it was helpless to have it, and it was helpless to do it! Therefore, the "culprit" of "pulling out seedlings to encourage" is still adults.
Second, the harm
A large number of data show that the influence of "primary school" in kindergarten education on children is extremely unfavorable and can be summarized as follows:
1, children are tired of learning before they go to school, killing their nature;
Before entering the kindergarten, every child is full of yearning for the kindergarten, because there are many fun toys and many children in the kindergarten. In kindergarten, teachers teach children to sing, dance, tell stories and play games every day. When children go to kindergarten, they cry in the morning and don't want to go to kindergarten. The reason is that kindergarten is different from children's imagination before entering kindergarten, and there is not much time to play. Even if you play, you should play according to the teacher's requirements. Children have begun to have tasks: sitting and listening to the teacher's lectures, they can't walk yet, and they can't draw what they want to draw, which is not enough, and unify the rules; In this way, can children still like kindergarten? Children's nature is to play, that is, they like freedom, imagination and doing what they want and are willing to do. Can we adults do it?
2. Deprived children of happiness;
We all know that childhood is carefree, happy and beautiful. When we grow up, we often recall our childhood and can't help feeling: if only we could go back to childhood! Because our childhood is not as burdened as today's children, today's children are in kindergarten from morning till night, and the time of day is arranged in advance. When should they do it, whether they like it or not, will they be happy in such an environment and such an atmosphere? Everyone has only one childhood, and we can't deprive children of the right to be happy!
3. It is not conducive to the formation of children's sound personality and harmful to children's mental health;
At present, the ratio of teachers and students in kindergartens is becoming more and more uncoordinated. Too many children make our kindergarten teacher very tired. The longer you work, the more you can feel "fear" and "high-risk industries". All teachers are afraid of the appearance of young children, and they will strictly manage them. Come on, come on. Over time, children will become very passive, their autonomy will not be developed, and their confidence will not be improved, which will seriously hurt them.
4. Curb the all-round development of children's intelligence and miss the "critical period" of early childhood education;
Every child has his own unique personality and different hobbies, but he missed the critical period of his children. Every child's age has a corresponding critical period. When is the best time to cultivate what ability? If kindergartens, like primary schools, have unified management and standards, they can't really teach students in accordance with their aptitude and pay attention to their individual differences. Teachers treat children differently according to their learning ability, ignoring the cultivation of non-intellectual factors, such as communication ability and problem-solving ability, which is not conducive to the formation of children's good behavior habits and inhibits their all-round intellectual development.
These principles are simple and easy to understand. If we can't really prohibit preschool education from becoming primary school, it will have a negative impact on children's learning after entering primary school.
It is not difficult to seriously implement the regulations, explain to parents through various forms, and put an end to "primary school" education in kindergartens. However, what is really worrying is how to completely change the status quo of children being rendered by "primary school" deformed education. In the eyes of children, play replaces learning; Demands and compulsions become companionship and help; Perhaps some parents' guilty expressions and tears are inevitable, which is the inversion of "right and wrong" for children; At the same time, it is extremely unfair to children who are different in learning, psychology, health and behavior habits during this period. Will this harm be misunderstood by some parents as a "defect" in system design? Will "primary school" be banned when children are at home and become "parental liberalization"? Such groups and consequences are unimaginable.
Third, there is a long way to go.
As the reflection and progress of preschool education, it has far-reaching significance and influence. For any kindergarten, learning, implementation, publicity and implementation can be immediate. However, after analysis and demonstration, it is not difficult to find that this is an enterprising requirement that includes sociality and tradition, and today's public opinion can be described as "a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend". Relying on the power of preschool education to accomplish this mission is obviously a drop in the bucket, and it cannot be overstated. Regional differences, development differences, ethnic differences, cultural differences, and even children's own interests and conditions. Make sure that this is a long and arduous task. In the long run, putting an end to the "primary school" of early childhood education is bound to have a positive impact and a profound warning effect on the abnormal educational phenomena such as the "secondary school" of primary education.
Some experts have advocated strengthening the training and supervision of teachers, teaching materials, teaching AIDS and other aspects in view of the "primary school" of preschool education, and stopping some false propaganda in time, so that the condition of survival competition between kindergartens is no longer to see who teaches more knowledge, but to see whose kindergarten is well run and formal, which is more suitable for children's physical and mental health and all-round development. And advocate governments at all levels and education departments to guide and strengthen supervision correctly, publicize the correct educational concept through newspapers, magazines, networks and other media, boldly expose the disadvantages of "primary school" of preschool education, and form a correct public opinion orientation. There are also calls for relevant departments to formulate relevant policies as soon as possible, so as to standardize preschool education, integrate preschool education into compulsory education and integrate collective and private kindergarten teachers into the government's public welfare social service system. In short: comprehensive and correct!
Fourth, the choice of ideas.
The result of the demonstration points out that this is an enterprising requirement that includes sociality and tradition, and it is a long-term and arduous task. Change means giving. Need the society to share, need the family to support, need the kindergarten to persist, need the teacher to persist, and paying means the price. For the above, there may be a long-term struggle for ideas, refutation of opinions, shortage of resources, income changes and other tangled processes. But as long as we firmly believe that in the years after the reform, parents and children will not repeat the tragic scene of "thousands of troops crowded on a single-plank bridge", and we believe from the bottom of our hearts that the contribution and development of different occupations are equally important to society, and in fact, they can also reflect the same equality and respect in the socialized value system. I believe that between choices, they must take the right path. This is the belief and charm of education! This is the far-reaching significance of prohibiting the "primary school" of early childhood education! Therefore, adhering to and sticking to this concept is the first choice to solve the problem.
Appendix 1
Main references
1, Regulations on Kindergarten Work, Order No.25 of the State Education Commission of the People's Republic of China;
2.3-6-year-old children's learning and development guide; Tourism Education Press;
3. Li Shenglan's research on cooperative education among kindergartens, families and communities;
4. Huang Rensong edited preschool education. Beijing: People's Education Press;
5. 1838 Comte's empirical philosophy course;
6. Network resources: The disadvantages of "primary school" education outweigh the advantages;