Study On The Life Value Orientation Of Early Childhood Education

The value orientation of early childhood education, that is a kind of self-conscious choosing to the value of early childhood education. It is not only an important issue on educational theory, but directly point to the practical education, and it decides everything from the educational aim to result in some way. Especially today, early childhood education has been cared much and is called the starting line of the whole life, meantime, it's an era with economic globalization, society transformation and multi-information that various thoughts mixed with the traditional, the modern and even the post-modern. Early childhood education is easy to lose its way at this era, so based on the nature of educational object and the particularity of early childhood education, based on the certainty of existential turn of school education, and echoing to the call for life of the new elementary education reform, this paper try to have a study on life value orientation of early childhood education, a new value orientation. Hoping to provide one more referenced value for nowadays early childhood education. This paper totally includes five parts:Part 1. Introduction. In this part the object and aim of research, reason and significance of research, research situation, research thought and method were discussed.Part 2. Puzzles and the way out. First, the writer presented some issues and phenomena observed in kindergarten through narrative method, pointed out the puzzles exist in the value orientation of early childhood education. Then, through analysis, found out the reason for generating puzzle is the deviation and uncertainty in value orientation. Based on the analysis, the way out of puzzles was put forward: To set up the life value orientation in early childhood education. Part 3. The connotation of life value orientation of early childhood education. First, making the connotation of educational value and value orientation clear, to be background for next segment. Second discuss the connotation of life value orientation of early childhood education based on the analysis on life and children's life. Then made a comparation between traditional value orientation and life value orientation. At last, clarified the existing misunderstanding on life value orientation.Part 4. Neccessity to set up life value orientation of early childhood education. The writer discussed the necessity to set up the life value orientation of early childhood education through three aspects: the essential nature of education, the particularity of children's life and the practical demands.Part 5. The basic strategies to guarantee the implement of life value orientation. Made a preliminary study of the basic strategies to guarantee the life value orientation of early childhood education conducting thoroughly from seven aspects: the educational idea of the decision rank, kindgarten, children's teachers, children's parents, children's media, curriculum and childhood education evaluation.