幼儿生命教育可能存在问题的研究

Study of the Possible Problems of Life Education for Young Children

当前,生命教育越来越受到人们的关注,生命教育的课程也开始引入我国内地。本文就我国特定文化背景下实施生命教育中可能存在的问题,对家长和教师进行了问卷调查,并对幼儿进行了认知理解方面的访谈。问卷调查表明,家长和教师希望幼儿具备调节情绪情感的技能,希望幼儿了解死亡的概念以更好地面对生活,但他们同时又担心如果教育方法不当,会给幼儿的心理带来阴影。这种矛盾心理是西方文化和中国传统文化对死亡的态度碰撞的体现。访谈表明,中班幼儿已掌握死亡概念的一些客观内容。因此,实施生命教育应该充分考虑中国特有的文化传统,采用幼儿、教师和家长能接受的方式。

With life education receiving increasing concern, the curriculum of life education is being introduced to inland China. Aiming at the possible problems in life education for young children in the specific Chinese culture, the author investigated parents and teachers in the form of a questionnaire and interviewed children in the aspect of cognition and understanding. The investigation shows that parents and teachers hope children possess the skill of adjusting their mood and feelings and understand death better to face life better, but meanwhile, they worry that inappropriate education may cause shadow to children's psyche. The contradiction is the expression of collision between western and Chinese attitude towards death. While the interview reveals that children in middle class have achieved certain objective concept about death. Therefore, implementation of life education curriculum should be culture-specific and acceptable to children, teachers and parents as well.