I. Preschool education

1, which 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.

2. 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.

3. Such a teacher should not only have certain artistic practice ability, but also have extensive cultural accomplishment and wisdom of knowing things and observing people, as well as keen scientific research consciousness and good scientific research ability.

4. Early childhood is an important period of personality formation and development, so preschool education plays an important role in children's growth.

Second, the development prospects

1. The early education market in China began to sprout on 1998. After 10 years of development, early education institutions have experienced a period of rapid expansion. Local early education institutions represented by Sports Baby, Red, Yellow and Blue and overseas brands represented by Gymboree and Genius Baby jointly occupy the current early education market.

2. Preschool education is the general trend of preschool education in 2 1 century. The latest China Demographic Yearbook shows that there are 70 million infants aged 0-3 in China.

3. In 2004, the number of children in kindergartens nationwide reached 20.894 million, a year-on-year increase of 4.5%; The number of kindergartens increased by 4,638 compared with 2003, with a growth rate of 4%.

4. Preschool education has a broad market potential, the demand for supporting kindergarten teachers and managers has soared, and the demand for kindergarten teachers graduates is in short supply. Although some colleges and universities around the country have added preschool education majors, they still can't meet the needs of the whole society.

Third, the basic principles

1. Basic requirements to be followed in implementing children's education from 0 years old to pre-primary school. The principle of kindergarten education is that the development of physical, intellectual, moral and aesthetic aspects should penetrate each other and be organically combined.

2. Follow the law of children's physical and mental development, conform to children's age characteristics, pay attention to individual differences, teach children in accordance with their aptitude, and guide the healthy development of children's personality; For all children; Love children and adhere to positive education of encouragement, inspiration and induction.