美国TCMI及其对我国幼儿社会教育的启示

American TCMI and its Enlightenment to Chinese Children’s Social Education

近年来,儿童博物馆作为重要的幼儿社会教育资源,已引起了政府、学界和大众的广泛关注。幼儿社会教育是提升幼儿社会性发展水平的重要手段。深入剖析美国TCMI的部分教育活动项目,如“家-校”合作项目、社区教育项目、特色主题项目、儿童故事项目。研究发现该类活动项目的共同特点有:参与主体多元,活动内容及形式丰富,注重在情境中学习。有鉴于此,鼓励多方参与、创设真实的学习情境、利用多种园外资源、加强跨领域之间的合作是提升我国幼儿社会教育质量的有益举措。

In recent years,children’s museum,as an important social education resource for young children,has attracted extensive attention from the government,academia and the public.Children’s social education is an important means to improve the level of children’s social development.The study deeply analyzed some educational activities of TCMI in the United States,such as“home-school”cooperation project,community education project,featured theme project and children’s story project,and found that the common characteristics of these activities are as follows:multiple participants,rich activity content and forms,and emphasis on learning in the context.In view of this,encouraging multiple participation,creating a real learning situation,using a variety of outside resources and strengthening inter-discipline cooperation are beneficial measures to improve the quality of Chinese children’s social education.