Chen Heqin is a famous child educator in China, and is known as "the father of preschool education in China". 1923 Nanjing Gulou kindergarten, the earliest experimental center for early childhood education in China, was established, and the concept of "living education" was founded. He devoted his whole life to exploring the China, civilian and scientific way of preschool education.

1. Oppose semi-colonial and semi-feudal preschool education, and advocate Chinese preschool education suitable for national conditions. 2. Oppose death education and advocate living education. The three goals of life education are: ① to be a person, to be a China person and to be a modern China person; (2) Learn by doing, learn by doing, learn by doing.

Seek progress; Nature and society are our living teaching materials.

(1) educational view.

Mr. Chen Heqin pointed out that in order to run kindergartens according to the spirit of life education, we must "replace passivity with automation" and children should "learn by themselves"

Dynamic learning, spontaneous learning ",to use their brains to acquire knowledge, teachers must respect children's autonomy, not across the board."

Traditional injection methods passively restrain children.

(2) Educational goal: to be a person, to be a China person and to be a modern China person.

(3) Educational methods: Learning by doing, learning by doing and making progress by doing.

(4) Educational content: Nature and society are living education, closely combined with reality.

(5) Educational principles

The principle of 17 life education put forward by Mr. Chen Heqin, such as "Let children do whatever they can; Every child can think.

Yes, let him think for himself, and so on. It embodies the respect for children's subjectivity, the attention to children's hands and brains, and the value of direct experience.

Thought, laid the foundation of kindergarten education principles.

3. Kindergarten Curriculum Theory Center (1)

Mr. Chen Heqin opposes that kindergarten curriculum is divorced from reality, and advocates that kindergarten curriculum system should focus on children's environment-natural environment and social environment, so that children can fully contact objects and people and get direct experience;

(2) the structure of the course

The course content is divided into "health, society, science, art and literature" as a whole, which is called "five fingers activity".

(3) the implementation of the curriculum

Emphasize that children's experience, physical and mental development characteristics and social development needs are the criteria for selecting teaching materials; Oppose subject teaching, advocate comprehensive unit teaching and "holistic teaching method" centered on sociality; Advocate game-based teaching.

4. Pay attention to the cooperation between kindergarten and family.