How to carry out research on preschool education? First, we should strive to lay a solid foundation for our educational theory.
To carry out educational research, preschool teachers must have certain theoretical literacy in educational research. This quality mainly refers to mastering certain basic education theories (pedagogy, psychology, management, etc. ), methodology and educational research methods.
Marxism-Leninism holds that theory plays a guiding role in practice, and practice needs the guiding role of theory. Practice without theoretical guidance, no matter how great, can only be blind practice. Only by arming ourselves with educational theories and related theories can we stand tall and see far and know the future direction of preschool education. Some teachers are only content to master some experience in their usual study, even? Do without learning (theory)? This is not right.
Experience is the crystallization of practice and theory is the sublimation of experience. Generally speaking, experience is still in the stage of perceptual knowledge and needs to be upgraded to theory; Theory is a scientific summary of things. Experience is often concrete and always depends on certain conditions such as time and place, and the theory is? Abstract science? , reflecting the general objective law, not a special case of individual cases, has a wide range of applicability. We should also use scientific theories to analyze, identify and evaluate various experiences and decide whether to accept or reject them. If we copy it, we will suffer and take a detour.
Furthermore, mastering theory can create methods, which are the arrangement and operation when theory is put into practice, and the product of the combination of theory and practice. Blind practice without theoretical guidance can never produce good methods, but mastering theory, having a rational understanding of work, and arranging and operating according to objective laws can create methods and form skills. ? Teaching uncertainty? As long as it conforms to the law of education and teaching, it is a good method; ? Is there a fixed method for teaching? This formula is educational science. When scientific theory collides with practice, generate will gain wisdom, bear the fruits of creation and create new methods and experiences.
On the contrary, we lack certain educational theory literacy, which will be manifested in the fact that teaching and research have no stamina in practice, which is embodied in:
I have rich educational experience, but I can't sum up a regular understanding, so it is difficult to carry out educational research.
I have been engaged in education for many years and have some educational experience. Although the teaching task can be generally completed, the level and ability are not improved greatly, and it is impossible to break through a certain level to achieve a leap.
(3) I don't know much about children, and I violate the laws of education and teaching in teaching methods and contents. I don't know where the reasons are, there are mistakes, and I don't know where to learn from them.
Therefore, we should study theory hard and lay a good foundation for educational research.
In terms of theoretical study, besides general educational theories, we should also learn some famous theories, such as Piaget, Bruner, Bandura, Bloom, Ausubel, babanski, Skinner and so on. In methodology, we should thoroughly study Marxist materialist dialectics, system theory, cybernetics and information theory.
Second, use the theories of other disciplines or new theories to examine early childhood education.
Looking at the current preschool education with other disciplines or new theories, we can find a new vision? Brand new preschool education? You will find that there are many new problems to study in early childhood education, and you can even create a brand-new early childhood education theory on the basis of a new theory. Like Piaget using his? Biological vision? The study of children's psychology has created a new theory of children's psychology ―― generative cognitive theory, the core concept in other psychology:? Assimilation? 、? Adapt? 、? Balance? Are all biological concepts.
Usually, when we study early childhood education, we can also study early childhood education with the theories of other disciplines. For example, there are many people talking now? Sustainable development theory? When we use it to examine preschool education, we can find that preschool education has a lot to do with sustainable development, such as? Environmental education in kindergartens? 、? Sustainable development of kindergartens? 、? Sustainable development of children? 、? Sustainable development of preschool teachers? Wait a minute.
Therefore, we should learn to examine our preschool education with the theories of other disciplines or new theories. When I talked with many preschool teachers about preschool education research, many teachers reported that there seems to be nothing to study in preschool education. I said, this seems to have fulfilled an ancient poem? I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, just because I am in this mountain? Honestly. Therefore, I advise those teachers to pay attention to the in-depth study of early childhood education and learn to re-examine early childhood education with the theories of other disciplines or new theories. Since then, their ideas have been opened and many research papers have been written.
However, this kind of grafting or deduction must be reasonable and reasonable, and we can't copy mechanically or even abandon the facts in order to take care of the theory.
Third, use the shortcomings enumeration method.
List the problems found in a certain aspect of preschool education, then use educational theory or psychological theory to analyze why these problems exist, and finally find out the countermeasures to solve the problems through research. This kind of research is of great practical significance and easy to produce results.
However, when listing problems, in order to find out the related problems more comprehensively, we should ask other teachers what they think of this problem, and at the same time ask them to talk about the ideas to solve these problems.
Fourth, reading monographs and learning with questions should be combined.
First, reading several monographs that urgently need to improve our knowledge structure can not only improve our theoretical level and broaden our thinking, but also have many new insights and new ideological sparks in the process of learning; The second is to learn relevant theories with problems encountered in work or research. Because of the urgent need, it has strong interest in learning, great motivation and high efficiency, and can also enhance the consciousness of learning theory and the practical ability of using theoretical analysis to solve problems.
5. Understand the trend of educational development and social development.
Educational research should conform to the general trend of social development, and research that runs counter to social development has no future and will not be recognized by society. For example, some teachers are studying? How to make children afraid of teachers? Does not meet the requirements of social development, although there may be some such studies? And the result? But it will not be recognized by society. We should pay attention to some topics that represent the development trend of early childhood education to some extent, such as? Sustainable development of children? ; ? Democratic and equal teacher-student relationship? ; ? What role does the environment play in children's development? ; ? Children's mental health education? ; ? How to cultivate children's creativity? ; ? The interaction between teachers and children? ; ? The activity is promoting
What role does it play in children's development? ; ? Research on the goal of early childhood education? ; ? What is the timeliness of preschool education? ; ? How to cultivate children's subjectivity? ; ? The role of games in promoting children's development
Sixth, locate the research scope within your own strength.
The daily work of preschool teachers is very complicated and hard, so when conducting educational research, it is best not to completely avoid their daily work to conduct so-called topic research, so as not to increase our burden, and topic research is not our specialty. There are three aspects of preschool teachers' major in educational research in China. One is the specific operation method of preschool education; Second, the summary of early childhood education experience; The third is the study of combining practice with theory. We should try our best to combine research with daily education and teaching, so as not to increase the burden, but also to produce results easily.
Seven,? Major? Is a necessary prerequisite for becoming an expert.
Choose your own good kindergarten education? Point? As the research object, and then continue to study, with the deepening of our research, the information will be more and more abundant, and we will be interested in this? Point? There must be many unique understandings of the problem, which can easily make our research produce radiation effect, and then produce a series of achievements, and then become experts in a certain field.
A person's energy is limited, and a person's ability is limited. How to decide? Point? Research will make our energy more concentrated, make our research deeper and more successful.