Growing up with the flowers in kindergarten ——Study of practice research for kindergarten-based ecological education

Exploiting and utilizing resources of ecological education actively and effectively in kindergarten, family, and community, focusing on requirements and developments of children, carrying out various education activities,... [ view full abstract ]

Exploiting and utilizing resources of ecological education actively and effectively in kindergarten, family, and community, focusing on requirements and developments of children, carrying out various education activities, and constructing kindergarten-based curriculum, are important measures for improving the quality of kindergarten education. This paper presents a kindergarten-based ecological education system from an ecological education perspective. The main content of this system contains theme activities and the kernel of this system includes life curriculum, social curriculum, Chinese traditional culture curriculum, and some characteristic curriculum. The power combined with family, kindergarten, and community education has received good social effects, which is developed by completing the system of teacher training and by improving teacher’s capability of understanding and using ecological education based on the mechanism of teacher's professional development. The concept of ecological education promotes the kindergarten management in education practices, which also enhances team cohesion and improves the cooperation quality of family, kindergarten, and community education by combining the rigid system with humanistic care.