幼儿文化研究初探

A Preparatory Study on Young Children Culture

当前幼儿教育的理论与实践都存在着过度依赖心理学而相对忽视社会学、文化学等倾向。这种倾向在强调幼儿教育科学化的同时,忽略了幼儿作为特定时期特定地域的群体的文化存在——作为群体的幼儿,受种种宏观和微观环境的影响,表现出具有一定稳定性和普遍性的行为与价值观念。因此,对幼儿的生存状况进行文化学的研究,可以从更广泛和更具有批判性的角度,帮助我们省思教育和幼儿之间的关系。

There exists a tendency in contemporary theories and practice of ECE to over-rely on psychology whereas the social and cultural perspective is ignored. This tendency, while emphasizing the scientific study of ECE, neglects children as the cultural existence in a specified period and area. Children, as a cultural being, perform steady and universal behaviors and ideas, the research of which leads to a wider and more critical perspective that will stimulate the reflection on the relationship between education and children.