Early childhood education refers to the education of children aged 3-6. Early childhood education can also be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, all purposeful activities that can affect children's physical growth and cognitive, emotional and personality development, such as watching TV, doing housework and participating in social activities under the guidance of adults, can be said to be early childhood education. Preschool education in a narrow sense refers to the education of kindergartens and other specialized preschool education institutions.
Kindergarten education belongs to the school education system in China. Like school education, kindergarten education also has advantages that family education and social education do not have, such as planning and systematization. Kindergarten education focuses on preschool teachers and devotes itself to publicizing the policies of the Party and the state on preschool education, reflecting the achievements of preschool education research and reform, exchanging experiences in kindergarten, nursery and family education, introducing information on preschool education at home and abroad, and providing information on preschool education activities and teaching reference materials.
According to certain training objectives and children's physical and mental characteristics, educational institutions carry out planned education for children before they enter primary schools. Also known as the pre-school Western Han Dynasty, the Book of Rites has a description of early childhood education. Modern preschool education institutions in China were founded in the 29th year of Guangxu reign (1903). Located in Wuchang, Hubei Province, 1922 was named as a nursery. Modern early childhood education in Europe came into being at the end of 18 and the beginning of 19.