Academic definition
Preschool education is a comprehensive subject. Preschool education can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Preschool education in a broad sense refers to the care and education of children from birth to 6 years old. Preschool education in a narrow sense refers to the care and education of children aged 3-6.
Preschool education is one of the professions with the highest employment rate, which is almost in short supply. Many kindergartens need to "place orders" in advance. Because the society is not short of kindergarten teachers, but short of high-educated and high-quality kindergarten teachers. Such a teacher should not only have certain artistic practice ability, but also have extensive cultural accomplishment and wisdom of understanding things and observing people, as well as keen scientific research consciousness and good scientific research ability.
Childhood is an important period for the formation and development of personality, so preschool education plays an important role in children's growth. There is a shortage of talents in the kindergarten teacher industry, and many people may want to become a kindergarten teacher through their own efforts. However, it is difficult to find the specialty of kindergarten teachers, and many schools do not offer it. In fact, kindergarten teachers are also called preschool education. Preschool education not only includes kindergarten teachers, but also has a wider learning range than kindergarten teachers.
Development characteristics
First, the party's strong leadership is the core strength.
The ten-year development of preschool education in China has once again proved the superiority of Socialism with Chinese characteristics system and demonstrated the institutional strength of the Party's overall leadership over education. Ten years ago, China's nine-year compulsory education was fully popularized, high schools developed rapidly, and higher education entered the stage of popularization. Preschool education has become the biggest shortcoming of education in China.
Second, public welfare is the fundamental direction.
Ten years ago, with the continuous acceleration of urbanization, the problems of serious shortage of preschool education resources and low quality of education became increasingly serious. It is increasingly urgent to speed up the development of preschool education, solve the problems of "difficult to enter the park" and "expensive to enter the park" and meet the people's demand for preschool education. The so-called "difficulty in entering the park" is actually "difficulty in entering the park in public parks", and there is a shortage of public education resources everywhere. "Expensive admission" means "high-quality private parks are expensive".
Third, planning guidance is an inexhaustible motive force.
In the general pattern of basic education, the state insists on giving priority to the development of preschool education and continues to start major projects of preschool education. The Ministry of Education and relevant departments have successively implemented four pre-school education action plans, all of which are strategic measures to promote the development of pre-school education for ten years. From the central government to local governments, policies and measures to accelerate the development of preschool education are unprecedented.