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Characteristics and functions of kindergarten education
Early childhood education is a subsystem of the education system, including kindergarten education, family education and community education. The former belongs to formal institutional education, while the latter two belong to informal institutional education. As a regular school education, kindergarten education is the core of the whole preschool education and belongs to the school education system. It is an important part of basic education and plays an important role in the development of young children.

Educational goals and tasks

Kindergarten education is a purposeful, planned and organized activity to promote the harmonious development of children's body and mind under the guidance and supervision of the education administrative department and according to the needs of society.

Protection work

In addition, kindergarten education should not only educate children, but also protect them. It is an educational institution that pays attention to the combination of protection and education.

Games are basic activities.

Restricted by children's psychological development level, kindergarten education is different from primary and secondary schools and does not aim at learning systematic cultural and scientific knowledge. Kindergarten education is based on games, and the process of education has the characteristics of life, integrity of daily life, foundation, activity and direct experience.