At present, the best development of preschool education is still in capitalist countries such as the United States, Britain, Japan and Australia, whether it is preschool education system, policy, management, preschool education research, teacher level, quality of educational institutions and so on.
Preschool pedagogy is a young science. In the past 30 years, due to the development of science and technology and the social attention to preschool education, great progress has been made in the theoretical research of preschool education. Foreign scientific research achievements have further developed in the following aspects: such as the role of preschool education in children's development, the important role of parents in children's education, the development of children's language and cognition, Swiss psychologist J.
The application of Piaget's cognitive theory in preschool education, the study of children's emotional development and children's behavior, the experimental study of the connection between kindergarten and primary school, the education of special children, etc. The research work of preschool education in China is also developing day by day, such as:
① Expand the research object, and expand the age of children to 3 years old.
② Pay more attention to the further application of the theory of children's development, and conduct experimental research to explore the learning process and moral quality formation process of preschool children.
(3) From the point of view that preschool children are the main body of education, reform the educational content and teaching methods to cultivate children's initiative and creativity.
④ Pay attention to the early development of preschool children's intelligence and the connection between kindergarten and primary school.
⑤ Pay attention to the research on the characteristics of rural preschool education.