幼儿“自主”与“教育”的关系探微

On the Relationship between Children's Autonomy and Education

近年来,人们越来越关注幼儿自主活动的价值和意义,尤其在幼儿园教育实践中,更加凸显出这一应然诉求。但人们对"自主"与幼儿教育的关系定位尚不明确,高控训导的教育模式与解放人性的自主追求产生了根本性矛盾,若想调和两者之间的关系,必须进一步澄清幼儿自主活动的涵义、价值及其与幼儿教育之间的关系。笔者通过引征不同有关自主的思想范式,明确幼儿自主的核心指向和内涵。从社会发展和人性解放的视角肯定自主的价值。进而从教育的视角,剖释"自主"与儿童教育之间的关系是个体成长与社会期待的合理融合,结合幼儿教育实际,构建自主活动与幼儿教育之间相互驱动的良性机制,窥探幼儿园中自主活动的应有之意和本质追求。

Recent years have seen a growth of interest in the value and significance of children's independent activities,especially in the practice of kindergarten education.Nevertheless,the relationship between children’s autonomy and education has not been classified,and an essential conflict has still existed between the mode of independent control and the pursuit of emancipation of humanity.This is the concern of the present study to further clarify the meaning and value of children’s self-regulated activities and its correlation to early childhood education.This paper is intended to explore the core orientation and connotation of children's autonomy from the perspective of social advance and humanistic emancipation to affirm the value of independence.It also examines the relationship between children's autonomy and education,therefore building a benign mechanism between independent activities and early childhood education,and displaying the authentic intentions and pursuits of independent activities in kindergartens.