In recent years, people have attached increasing importance to early childhood education, and the demand for early childhood education from all sectors of society has also been growing. In fact, young children should receive enlightenment education before kindergarten, such as understanding the world around them, exposing them to various colors and shapes, and allowing them to recognize and manipulate them. Is kindergarten an enlightenment education? How to carry out early childhood enlightenment education?
Is kindergarten an enlightenment education
Enlightenment education is an educational method that allows children to have a general understanding of the things around them without the need for in-depth knowledge. Kindergarten is both preschool education and enlightenment education.
Early childhood is an important period for cultivating scientific literacy, therefore, laying a solid foundation in science from a young age is the primary task. The implementation of scientific enlightenment education in kindergartens has become a trend in educational development. The scientific enlightenment education in kindergarten should start with building a set of school-based curriculum that is suitable for the developmental needs of young children at different age stages, continuously improving research on scientific education methods, cultivating children's active learning abilities, and thereby enhancing the effectiveness of scientific enlightenment education.
How to carry out early childhood enlightenment education
1. Visual enlightenment. For visual enlightenment of babies, we can hold red or black and white toys and place them 20-30 centimeters in front of the baby, slowly moving them around and letting the baby's eyes follow our toys. For example, left and right, up and down, circles, diagonal lines, and distance can stimulate the development of infants' eyes, thereby developing eye sensitivity and coordination.
2. Auditory enlightenment. Mothers can use speech or toys to make sounds next to their babies, allowing them to search and train their ability to judge sounds. Generally speaking, a mother's voice is the best sounding voice for a baby. She speaks to the baby in a friendly, pleasant, and gentle tone, making the baby pay attention to the mouth shape, movements, expressions, etc. of adult pronunciation, thereby inducing good emotions and a desire to speak.
3. Tactile enlightenment. Because babies' faces, hands, footsteps, mouths, etc. are sensitive to touch pressure, we can use our hands, toys, or scarves, fabrics, combs, etc. to stimulate various parts of the baby's body and train their tactile ability.
4. Smell, taste, and temperature enlightenment. When we are eating, we dip the soup in our chopsticks and put it in the baby's mouth. When eating an apple, place it in front of the baby's nose and let the baby smell it. When giving infant formula, let the baby's hand touch it. These simple actions can exercise a baby's sensory abilities.
Is kindergarten an enlightenment education? Kindergarten is a kind of enlightenment education, where children have strong curiosity. It can cultivate children's hands-on and storage abilities, inspire their wisdom, cultivate their excellent qualities of helping each other, solidarity, friendship, and politeness, and cultivate their rich imagination.
