学习品质:美国儿童入学准备的一个新领域

Approaches toward Learning: A New Field of School Readiness in U.S.

学习品质是在美国儿童入学准备研究中提出的一个新的儿童学习与发展领域,目前人们对它的研究还较少,但已越来越受到关注。它通常指向与学习有关的倾向、态度、习惯、风格、特质等,是儿童社会性、情绪、认知发展及其交互作用的核心,一般包括好奇与兴趣、主动性、坚持与注意、创造与发明、反思与解释等具体内容。美国目前已有十几个州在其制订的早期儿童学习与发展标准中将学习品质作为一个独立的领域来考虑。

Recently, many states of U.S. have developed their own early learning and development standards for helping children get ready to learn. Much attention has been paid to the new field of approaches toward learning, and many states＇ learning and development standards have included this domain. This article introduced the meanings, significations and contents of approaches toward learning.