民国最早创设的幼稚教育研究社团考论

A Quest on the Earliest Establishment of the Preschool Education Research Association

张宗麟认为,1927年前后,由陈鹤琴领衔筹创的"南京幼稚教育研究会",为民国时期"全国最早的一个会"。然而事实并非如此。较其为早的幼教社团,尚有上海幼稚教育研究会(1926年1月)、北京大学教育学会幼稚教育研究组(1925年12月)、中华教育改进社幼稚教育组(1923年8月)、北京女高师幼稚教育研究会(1919年10月)和江苏省教育会幼稚教育研究会(1916年8月)。这五个社团,可视为民国前期幼教社团史的骨架;而最早创设者,无疑当推江苏省教育会幼稚教育研究会。

According to Zhang Zonglin,the＂Nanjing Preschool Education Association ＂,which founded by Chen Heqin in about 1972,was＂the earliest one in the history of Chinese preschool education＂.But that＇s not the case.Before it was founded,there had existed five similar institutes.They were Shanghai Preschool Education Research Association（founded in January,1926）,Preschool Education Research Unit of Peking University Education Society（founded in December,1925）,Preschool Education Unit of the Chinese Educational Reform Society（founded in August,1923）,Preschool Education Research Association of Beijing Women＇s Education Institute（founded in April,1919）and Preschool Education Research Association of the Jiangsu Province Education Society（founded in August,1916）.These five institutions can be regarded as the scaffolds in the history of preschool education organizations during the early period of the Republic of China.The fact that the initiative one in Chinese educational history is undoubtedly Preschool Education Research Association of the Jiangsu Province Education Society.