The Impact Of Gender-paired Cooperative Games On Children’s Sharing Behavior

In 2001,the Ministry of Education issued the Kindergarten Education Guidelines(Trial),which clearly pointed out in the social field that "children should be cultivated willingness to communicate with others,learn to help each other,cooperate and share,and be compassion." It can be seen that cultivating children’s sharing behavior is an important part of preschool education.As a typical prosocial behavior,sharing behavior is beneficial for the development of interpersonal relationships and social skills in young children.In this regard,previous researchers have also made extensive and in-depth exploration of the connotation,value,influencing factors and cultivation strategies of sharing behavior.However,in general,most of the current domestic studies on children’s sharing behavior are status quo investigation and related studies,while experimental intervention studies are relatively few.Game is the basic activity of children,but also is an important way of children’s socialization.Therefore,basing on games to cultivate children’s sharing behavior has rich practical value and exploration space.Cooperative games are a common type of games in kindergartens,especially in the big class stage,which is often regarded by educational researchers as an important strategy to shape the behavior norms of children.Among them,as an interpersonal element in the cooperative game,gender pairing has been proved to be closely related to the cooperative process and results,just as the secret of "men and women match,not tired" has been revealed by brain science researchers.However,gender pairing has not received sufficient attention from researchers in the field of preschool education.How does gender pairing with peers affect young children’s sharing behavior? Do same-sex cooperative games and opposite-sex cooperative games have different effects on children’s sharing behavior? These problems urgently need to be investigated objectively and carefully by researchers.Autumn semester in 2022,this study randomly selected 160 preschoolers in senior grade from H,Y two kindergarten in Chongqing,relying on 2(game: cooperation,parallel)2(gender: same-sex,opposite-sex)2(gender: male,female)group experimental design,to explore the gender pairing cooperative game on children’s share behavior.First of all,the influence of 5 consecutive days of cooperative games on children’s sharing behavior is investigated,and whether the influence can be transferred to strange children outside the game partner,and educational measures are proposed to cultivate children’s sharing behavior through cooperative games.Secondly,combining with the influence of gender pairing situation on children’s sharing behavior,specific suggestions are put forward for scientific gender role education and effective cultivation of children’s sharing behavior in educational practice.In line with the research orientation of combining quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis in preschool education,this study uses the anecdotal recording method to observe and record the children’s behavior fragments in the game situation,in order to supplement meaningful qualitative analysis materials for the research results.This study obtained the following main conclusions: First,the game type significantly affects the children’s sharing behavior.Compared with the parallel game group,the children in the cooperative game group have a higher level of sharing behavior with their peers,and are more willing to share with unfamiliar children outside the game.Second,gender pairing significantly affects the sharing behavior of children.Compared with the opposite-sex pairing group,children in the same-sex pairing group have a higher level of sharing behavior with their peers.That is,children show obvious same-sex preference when sharing with their peers.Third,there is a significant interaction between gender pairing and cooperative game on children’s sharing behavior.Compared with the same-sex cooperative game group,the opposite-sex cooperative game group shares more with strange children,indicating that the opposite-sex cooperative games have a greater prosocial effect.Based on the above research results,this study obtains the following educational enlightenment: First,educators should pay full attention to cooperation,stimulate cooperation,guide cooperation and deepen cooperation,and give full play to the maximum value of cooperative games for children’s sharing behavior.Second,educators should be keenly aware of the same-sex preferences in children’s sharing behavior,take the law of psychological development as the cornerstone,take gender role education as the starting point,so as to cultivate children’s fair social behavior together.Third,educators should fully affirm the unique value of heterosexual cooperation for children’s social development,and root the concept of heterosexual cooperation in games,into teaching and into life,so as to enhance children’s sharing behavior.