A Research On The Objective Of Science Curriculum In Kindergarten

Science technology has been an important part of people's lives and is related with countries' international competence as its rapidly developing. Especially because science literacy of the public has been a key symbol of countries' prosperousness, science curriculum has being scheduled into the programs of pre-school education with the objective which is to cultivate children's scientific literacy. In that situation, there is a certain demand for our country to make a objective of kindergarten's science curriculum, which is conformed to time request, good for children's growth and development.The mainline of this research is intension and constitute of scientific literacy, and the basic theories are the Lifelong Education maintains, On the Cognitive Structure and Hauenstein's Taxonomy for Educational Objectives. This research, keeps to features of children's scientific cognition and exploration, is trying to construct a science curriculum objective system of kindergarten which could reach needs of both children and era.There are cases studies on nine teachers' choosing, formulating and realization of science curriculum from three kindergartens. Research methods are literature investigation, interview, observation and material collection. In those conditions, the author found many problems as follow:there is a lack of consideration for either theoretical supporting or children's real needs to make science curriculum objectives; moreover, contents of science curriculum is too formalized and lacking practicability; nevertheless, paths to realize curriculum objectives are not flexible; what's worse is that the evaluation methods of curriculum objective-realizing are limited and focus on summative assessment, which means not in detail.According to research findings and factor analysis, the author put forward some suggestions for teachers, kindergartens and the society. First of all, there should be more attention to building kindergarten's science curriculum objectives than before. After that, it is necessary for kindergarten teachers to promote their professionalism on making kindergarten's science curriculum objectives. The last, kindergarten culture should be construct combining with actual.