The development of social economy promotes the emergence of preschool education institutions. In primitive society, productivity is very low, and life and labor are very low. After the age of 3, children directly participate in adult activities and receive education in life and labor. With the development of social economy and the gradual refinement of division of labor, it is impossible for children to participate in labor directly, but to follow adults to do auxiliary labor and receive certain education and training in life and labor.
In the long slave society and feudal society, mainly small-scale peasant economy and small-scale handicraft industry, young workers can participate in social labor without special skills. Preschool education has been in a natural state for a long time and its development is slow.
The rise of capitalist large-scale industry has created the social demand for establishing preschool education institutions, increased social wealth and provided a material foundation for preschool education institutions. At the same time, because women leave home, go out to work, enter factories, and children are left unattended, social problems have arisen, so it is necessary to establish children's education institutions. Therefore, countries with developed industries were the first to establish preschool education institutions at that time, while countries with relatively backward economic development were relatively late.
The development trend of preschool education;
Preschool pedagogy is a young science. In the past 30 years, due to the development of science and technology and the social attention to preschool education, great progress has been made in the theoretical research of preschool education. Foreign scientific research achievements have further developed in the following aspects: the role of preschool education in children's development, the important role of parents in children's education, the development of children's language and cognition, and the application of Swiss psychologist J Piaget's cognitive theory in preschool education.
Research on children's emotional development and children's behavior, experimental research on the connection between kindergarten and primary school, education for special children, etc. The research work of preschool education in China is also developing day by day, such as:
1, expanded the research object and extended the age of children to 3 years old.
2. Attach importance to further applying the theory of children's development, conduct experimental research, and explore the process of preschool children's learning and moral quality formation.
3. From the viewpoint that preschool children are the main body of education, we should reform the educational content and teaching methods to cultivate children's initiative and creativity.
4. Pay attention to the early development of preschool children's intelligence, the connection between kindergarten and primary school, and so on. ⑤ Pay attention to the research on the characteristics of rural preschool education.