Society. Small class (upper)

Author: Yu Yongping, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The "Infiltrated Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series was meticulously crafted by a strong team of authors, including Mr. Zhao Jishi, hailed by the United Nations as the pioneer of the "Chinese Model" of international early childhood education; Professor Tang Shu, Deputy President of the China Society of Early Childhood Education; three doctoral supervisors, Xu Zhuoya, Yu Yongping, and Zhou Jing, from the Early Childhood Education Department of Nanjing Normal University; five professors; a total of ten experts; over one hundred early childhood education research and teaching staff; renowned kindergarten directors; and distinguished and key teaching staff from kindergartens. This series represents an advancement and development based on the influential Nanjing Normal University early childhood textbooks from the 20th century (commonly known as the "Five Major Domains"). If the "Five Major Domains" symbolize the research achievements of Nanjing Normal University's early childhood education department at the end of the 20th century, then the "Infiltrated Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series reflects the new research and practical outcomes of the early childhood education department at the beginning of the 21st century. The involvement of renowned early childhood education experts and frontline early childhood teachers ensures the high unity of theory and practice in this series. Nanjing Normal University Press has previously published the "Kindergarten Curriculum Guidance" series and the "Kindergarten Integrated Curriculum" series, providing forward-looking and leading early childhood education concepts and highly practical top-quality textbooks for early childhood education curriculum and teaching reform in kindergartens across the country. In the autumn harvest season of 2005, Nanjing Normal University Press launched the top-quality book series "Infiltrated Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" with full force. This series fully implements the "Kindergarten Education Guidance": children's development and learning content cover five domains—health, language, society, science, and art. Each domain has its unique learning and educational principles. Based on the psychological and developmental patterns of Chinese children, the domain curriculum perfectly maintains the relative independence, completeness, and uniqueness of the educational objectives, content, and learning methods of each domain, which cannot be replaced by any other form of early childhood education textbooks. Furthermore, horizontal infiltration is conducted on the basis of these domains to address the unsuitability of highly differentiated and systematic subject-based curriculum forms in kindergartens. It actively seeks connections between educational content across different domains and integrates them, ultimately forming a complete Chinese early childhood education curriculum—the "Infiltrated Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens." This is precisely the core concept and theme of the newly promulgated "Kindergarten Education Guidance" by the Ministry of Education of China. The "Kindergarten Education Guidance" explicitly states that "the content of the five major domains should be relatively divided and mutually infiltrated." Without a doubt, the "Infiltrated Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series fully aligns with the spirit of the Ministry of Education's new "Guidance," perfectly embodies the Chinese educational cultural background, and is suitable and beneficial for elevating the practical level of Chinese early childhood education.