Research On The Tendency Of Kindergarten Education Toward Primary School Of Nongovernmental Kindergartens In County Seats From Multiple Perspectives

The tendency of kindergarten education toward primary school is wildly criticized but hard to prohibit in preschool education field. This research use the method multivocal ethnography which is introduced by Tobin (1998). During the research, a 25-minutes-video about daily activities of a kindergarten in a county seat in Liaoning province was presented to stimulate audience to judge the tendency of kindergarten education toward primary school which is prevalent in that area. At the beginning, I tried to find a proper kindergarten. Then I screen the daily activities of that kindergarten. After that, I pick up the parts that can raise extensive discussion and edited a video about 25minutes. During the process, I focus on the main problem gradually. The 25 audience are kindergarten teachers, parents, administrators of educational bureau and college students major in preschool education who come from the county seat and Chengdu. The content of the video and the comments of the audience can be cataloged as four 4 groups: description of the kindergarten daily activities (visual ethnography), the voices of principals and kindergarten teachers, the voices of educational administrators, kindergarten teachers, parents come from the same place, voices of kindergarten teachers, parents, preschool education majored college students come from different places. I put these voices together to analyze the talking text from the view of ethnographic research to know people's understanding of the tendency of kindergarten education toward primary school and uncover the substance of it. The result showed that, the tendency of kindergarten education toward primary school is prevalent in that county seat, but it wasn't recognized by the native people. The primary schooled educational goal leads to the primary schooled educational form. Respecting children's characters is the standard to judge whether the tendency of kindergarten education toward primary school exist. In the environment of market economy, marketization of preschool education in county seats ensure the educational chance of children, but don't ensure the quality of children's education. Most nongovernmental kindergartens teach children in a primary schooled way in order to pursue profit. Traditional view of child restrict people's mind, some parents, even kindergarten teachers have no scientific concrete cognition of children's characters in different developmental phases.Kindergartens, primary schools, parents and administrators understand as well as oppose each other. Advocate the over excessive education, knowledge transferring, over controlling are pervasive in county seats, and that's the reason of the tendency of kindergarten education toward primary school there.