| Pre-school is the key period of character cultivation,in this stage through the form of art education of preschool children character cultivation,can guide preschool children to produce basic self-cognition,gradually cultivate preschool children’s internal excellent character.Compared with other teaching activities,art education is more vivid,easier to cause emotional resonance of preschool children in life,produce better teaching effect.Cultivating preschool children’s excellent character through art education plays an important role in preschool children’s future behavior and behavior norms.This study takes "integrity" "confidence" "cooperation" and "gratitude" as the theme of four excellent characters.Through various forms of art teaching activities and home cooperation,it has developed a training program to cultivate preschool children’s excellent characters.For kindergartens,it can improve the professional level of the school’s art curriculum and enrich the content of the school’s art education curriculum.For parents,it can raise their awareness of their children’s character and artistic ability.For teachers,their ability,especially the professional ability cultivated by art courses,will be greatly improved,and their soft power,including observation ability,analysis ability and field control ability,will also be improved.The author designed the four excellent character cultivation programs of "honesty" "confidence" "cooperation" and "gratitude" into three stages of feeling--experience--understanding.By setting a control group,different character cultivation courses were arranged for Class 1,Class 2,Class 1 and Class 2 respectively.After the completion of the four character art teaching activities,the author observed the behavioral changes of preschool children before and after character cultivation,conducted communication and interview with teachers and parents,conducted questionnaire survey on the teachers in the experiment and control group and analyzed the survey results with spss software.Through the above three methods,the author analyzed and demonstrated.It can be seen that preschool children’s character cognition,moral behavior has been significantly improved.At the same time,this study has significantly improved the professional development of both the author and the teachers involved in teaching.This study is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction,clarifies the research reasons and research significance of this topic,through the art education of preschool children character training related research literature review at home and abroad,put forward the research methods of this topic.The second part,based on the collation of the research status at home and abroad,expounds the basic concepts of "character" and "excellent character of preschool children" and the theoretical basis of art education to cultivate preschool children’s character,and puts forward the goal of art education to cultivate preschool children’s excellent character.The third part establishes the theme of "integrity" "confidence" "cooperation" and "gratitude" in the cultivation of excellent character of preschool children in Baqiao District of Xi ’an.Together with kindergarten teachers,the school has developed specific contents for the cultivation of four outstanding characters of preschool children: "integrity" "confidence" "cooper ation" and "gratitude" in various forms of art education courses such as picture books,drama,dance,music and art.The fourth part is the effect analysis of art education to cultivate preschool children’s excellent character.The author adopts control group experiment method,interview method and questionnaire method to discuss and analyze the positive effect of art education on the cultivation of preschool children’s excellent character.The fifth part puts forward the strategy of art education to cultivate preschool children’s excellent character.Starting from the three dimensions of kindergarten,kindergarten teachers and parents,the author puts forward three strategies to promote art education to cultivate preschool children’s excellent character,which are specifically: improve the character and cultivation of kindergarten teachers,improve parents’ attention to the character cultivation of preschool children,and create a good education atmosphere in kindergarten.The sixth part is summary and outlook.This study draws the following conclusions: the cultivation of excellent character is very important to the growth of preschool children;To cultivate preschool children’s excellent character through art education needs clear cultivation strategy;The process of cultivating preschool children’s excellent character needs the cooperation of parents,teachers and schools;Art education plays a positive role in cultivating preschool children’s excellent character.Finally,it reviews the practice process of this study,summarizes the limitations of this study,and puts forward the prospect of future research on art education and character cultivation of preschool children. |