Chen Heqin (1892 March 5-1982 65438+February 30), a native of Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province, graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree. He is a famous child educator and psychologist in China, the founder of modern early childhood education in China, and one of the four great educators in the Republic of China. He is called "the father of early childhood education in China".
1In the autumn of 923, Chen Heqin founded the Gulou Kindergarten in his own residence in Nanjing, and conducted scientific and China-like naive education experiments. 1925 In the autumn, the new building of Gulou Kindergarten was built and named as the experimental kindergarten of the Education Department of Southeast University. Zhang Zonglin, a teaching assistant, was invited to assist in the work and carry out experiments in an all-round way, which was praised as "China's fall". In the same year, A Study on Child Psychology and Family Education was published. 1936 responded to the call of "National Disaster Education Society" and launched fund-raising to promote the activities of "Life Education" and "National Disaster Education". 1939, blacklisted by Wang puppet agents for propaganda against Japan, and forced to leave Shanghai. /kloc-in the summer of 0/940, he founded the first public experimental naive normal school in China in Taihe, Jiangxi, and served as the principal. 194 1 established the monthly life education. He put forward the theory of "living education" and established a complete preschool education and preschool normal education system in China. 1982 65438+February 30th, died in Nanjing.