Early childhood education refers to education from one year old to three years old. During this period, the child's brain has just begun to develop, and the development speed is many times that of 18 years old. Therefore, we should pay attention to the development of early childhood brain intelligence. In addition, during this period, children's moral concepts, personality and quality began to form slowly. Because what they learn in childhood will not be influenced by forward inhibition and backward inhibition, they will leave a very deep impression on a person's memory, which is not as easy to forget as what they learn in adulthood. Therefore, the education in early childhood often gets twice the result with half the effort, which is also the reason why the texts and poems recited in early childhood will not be unforgettable for life. This shows the importance of early childhood education.
At present, with the rapid development of science and technology and the accelerated pace of life, many parents have no time to accompany and educate their children. In addition, parents are young and don't understand early childhood education, which leads parents to let their children watch cartoons all the time, but they think it's just killing time and don't realize the value of cartoons in early childhood education. The value of cartoons in early childhood education is mainly reflected in five aspects: stimulating sensory function, improving cognitive function, enhancing aesthetic function, meeting emotional needs and cultivating innovative ability.
(A) to stimulate sensory function
A certain degree and quantity of sensory stimulation is a necessary condition to promote the maturity of children's sensory function. However, children's thinking ability and other functions have not yet been developed, and abstract sensory stimulation cannot be carried out. Cartoons and cartoons combine their rich colors, wonderful music and beautiful dubbing, thus promoting the development of children's sensory functions such as vision and hearing. For example, when children watch the cartoon "Happy and Big Big Wolf", they will hum and twist with the music and have a certain understanding of various bright colors.
(B) improve cognitive function
Cognitive function refers to the ability of human brain to process, store and extract information, that is, people's ability to grasp the composition of things, the relationship between performance and other things, development motivation, development direction and basic laws. It is the most important psychological condition for people to complete activities. Including language information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies and so on. In this period, children's cognitive function is mainly learned through imitation, and cartoons provide a good sample for children's imitation. Children watching cartoons can increase their language vocabulary by imitating the characters in cartoons, thus accelerating language learning; In addition, children are curious about many phenomena and things because of insufficient knowledge reserves, and often like to ask why. Relatives and parents around them are either too busy to answer their children's questions, or their knowledge is limited to answer these questions scientifically. At this time, children can watch some science cartoons, which can satisfy their curiosity, help them learn a lot of scientific knowledge and develop their brain intelligence. For example, every issue of "Blue Cat Naughty Three Thousand Questions" will answer and explain a scientific question, which can help children learn a lot of scientific knowledge and form a respect and desire for knowledge in a subtle way.
(C) enhance the aesthetic function
Aesthetics refers to a special form of human understanding of the world and a utilitarian, visual and emotional relationship between man and the world (social and natural). Aesthetics has the characteristics of intuition, emotion and pleasure. Cartoons advocate truth, goodness and beauty, provide an example for children to imitate, promote the formation of children's right and wrong concepts, cultivate children's good moral quality and enhance their aesthetic function. For example, "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" not only promotes popular science knowledge but also expresses family affection; Make a scene in heaven conveys the spirit of opposing inequality; Moody expresses the idea of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with its beautiful ink artistic conception and delicate and touching plot. These cartoons are undoubtedly the best visual feast for children.
(D) to meet emotional needs
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the needs from low level to high level can be divided into five categories: physiological needs, security needs, love and attachment, respect and self-realization. Many people think that people have no emotional and belonging needs in early childhood, which is wrong. According to many research data at home and abroad, children have many emotional needs in early childhood, and the satisfaction of these emotional needs is very important for growing children. In real life, many children are only children, and their parents are busy with work, so many children's emotional and belonging needs cannot be met. By watching cartoons, children will bring themselves into the role of cartoons to have a dialogue and exchange with the characters inside, so as to meet their emotional needs to some extent. In addition, the characters in cartoons have obvious emotional expressions, and children can learn to express their emotions effectively and understand others' emotional attitudes by watching cartoons.
(5) Cultivate innovative ability.
Innovation has different aspects and levels, and the core of innovation, that is, the cultivation of "creativity", has its unique and irreplaceable role in cultivating people's creativity at every stage of education, while early childhood education plays a fundamental role in cultivating people's creativity, so innovation education must start from early childhood. An excellent cartoon itself is a very creative cartoon.
Sony's products are full of the imagination of flying horse and starry sky, which can make children's thinking soar freely in the ocean of comics, thus cultivating children's innovative ability. For example, when children watch "the Monkey King makes a scene in Heaven", they find that people can have scientific and interesting fantasies such as clairvoyance, clairvoyance and somersault, so that children will fantasize about what super powers I want in private. Cartoons and cartoons help children take the first step of innovation and learn to fantasize.