1802, British utopian socialist R owen founded a kindergarten for children of workers aged 2-6 in new lanark.

German educator Froebel and Italian educator Montessori had a great influence on the theory and practice of early childhood education. In China, Soong Ching Ling, Tao Xingzhi, Chen Heqin and Zhang Xuemen also made great contributions to preschool education. The main task of early childhood education is to make children's physical and mental development normal and prepare for entering primary school. Early childhood education in China is an integral part of socialist education.

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Kindergartens can be divided into full-time kindergartens and boarding kindergartens according to time, disabled children's kindergartens and special children's kindergartens according to objects, bilingual kindergartens and music kindergartens according to services, and large kindergartens (10 to 12 classes), medium kindergartens (6 to 9 classes) and small kindergartens (below 5 classes) according to scale.

For the convenience of education, it is generally divided into small classes, middle classes and large classes according to age, in which the small class is 3-4 years old with 20-25 children in each class, the middle class is 4-5 years old with 25-30 children in each class, and the large class is 5-6 years old with 365,438+0-35 children in each class. ?

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