Science. Middle Class (Upper): Kindergarten Integrated Domain Curriculum

Author: Zhang Jun
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series is meticulously crafted by a strong writing team composed of ten experts and over 100 early childhood education research and teaching staff, renowned kindergarten directors, and distinguished and core teaching staff. This series represents an advancement and development based on the influential Nanjing Normal University edition of early childhood textbooks (commonly known as "Five Major Domains") that were popular across the nation in the 20th century. If "Five Major Domains" symbolized the research achievements of Nanjing Normal University's early childhood education program by the late 20th century, then "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series embodies the new research and practical outcomes of Nanjing Normal University's early childhood education program in the early 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 high-practicality premium textbooks for the curriculum and teaching reform of kindergartens across the country. In the autumn harvest season of 2005, Nanjing Normal University Press once again launched the premium book series "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens." 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. The domain curriculum perfectly maintains the relative independence, completeness, and uniqueness of educational objectives, content, and learning methods in each domain, which cannot be replaced by any other form of early childhood education textbooks. While permeating horizontally on the basis of domains, it addresses the unsuitability of highly differentiated and systematic subject courses in kindergarten curricula, actively seeks connections between different domain educational contents and integrates them, ultimately forming a complete Chinese early childhood education curriculum—the "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens." This is precisely the core concept and theme of the newly promulgated "Kindergarten Education Guidance" by the Ministry of Education. The "Kindergarten Education Guidance" explicitly states that "the content of the relatively divided five major domains—health, language, society, science, and art—should permeate each other." Without a doubt, the "Infiltrating 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 enhancing the practical level of Chinese early childhood education.