怀特海教育思想对发展幼儿想象力的启示

Enlightenment of Whitehead’s Educational Thought on Development of Children’s Imagination

怀特海的教育思想是其独特的哲学思考与丰富的教育经历相结合生成的思想宝库。其中,关于发展幼儿想象力的思想主要涉及教育的目的、课程内容、教学原则、教学方式、教学过程等方面。具体而言,怀特海认为发展幼儿想象力应在教育目的上体现对想象力的追求,课程内容上强调对生活生动性的想象,及时关注幼儿的兴趣点、内驱力,通过接触性的想象教学将幼儿智力发展阶段与发展想象力进行有机结合。这对发展幼儿想象力有如下启示:利用幼儿发展的内在动力激发想象潜能;尊重幼儿智力发展规律,把握幼儿想象力发展契机;采用想象的方式对儿童进行教学;创设可供接触的想象性环境。

Whitehead’s educational thought is a treasure house of thoughts generated by the combination of his unique philosophical thinking and rich educational experience.Among them,the idea of developing children’s imagination mainly involves the purpose of education,curriculum content,teaching principles,teaching methods,teaching process.Specifically,Whitehead believed that the development of children’s imagination should reflect the pursuit of imagination in the purpose of education.The content of the curriculum emphasizes the imagination on life’s vividness,and pays attention to children’s points of interest and internal drive in time.Contact imagination teaching integrates the stage of children’s intellectual development and the development of imagination organically.The enlightenment for the development of children’s imagination is as follows:using the inherent power of children’s development to stimulate the potential of imagination;respecting the laws of children’s intellectual development and grasping the opportunities of children’s imagination development;adopting the way of imagination to teach children;creating an imaginative environment for contact.