Situation Kindergarten Curriculum Development And Strategy

Driven by the movement of educational democratization, the concept ofdemocracy in the decision-making process in curriculum was deeply rooted amongthe people. Under the three-class curriculum administrative system, the kindergartenhave more rights for the decision-making process. Nowadays more and morekindergartens make an attempt on constructing the curriculum that is suitable fortheir development. In this context, kindergarten-based curriculum (KBC)development becomes the important measure to improve the reform anddevelopment in preschool-education curriculum. Relative to national and localcurriculum, KBC take the development situation and needs of the children intoconsideration; mobilizes teachers’ initiative to participate construction of curriculumand highlights the feature of the kindergarten, which can promote the quality incurriculum of the kindergarten. In a word, no matter to children’s development or topromote the curriculum development of the kindergarten, KBC development practiceis very meaningful.In this research, a kindergarten which proceeds a KBC of ‘safety education’is selected to be a case. Case study method, documentary method, questionnairemethod and interviewing method is used to make survey in this research. Throughthe survey, we know the necessity of the KBC development and how they think ofthe aim of the KBC development. Meanwhile, we know how the kindergarten doduring the kindergarten-based curriculum development by researching how to setcourse objectives, how to select course contents, how to conduct courses, how tomake a curriculum assessment and how to develop and utilize the curriculumresources during the process. Of course, there are still some problems of thekindergarten-based curriculum (KBC) development. For example, the teacher’scurriculum development capacity should be improved; the curriculum conductionshould be expanded; the evaluation criterion of the kindergarten-based curriculumdevelopment should be completed; and more curriculum resources should bedeveloped and used. Based on the survey of the current situation of the kindergarten-basedcurriculum development and the thinking on the practice, some tactics are proposedto provide basis and references for the kindergarten.