Health. Kindergarten (Upper)

Author: Gu Rongfang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The "Infiltrated 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 key teaching staff. This team includes Mr. Zhao Jishi, hailed by the United Nations organization as the pioneer of the "Chinese Model" of international early childhood education; Professor Tang Shu, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Early Childhood Education; and three doctoral supervisors, Xu Zhuoya, Yu Yongping, and Zhou Jing, from the Early Childhood Education Department of Nanjing Normal University. Building upon the influential Nanjing Normal University edition of early childhood textbooks (commonly known as the "Five Major Domains") that swept the nation in the 20th century, the series represents an advancement and development of this foundational work. If the "Five Major Domains" symbolized the research achievements of Nanjing Normal University's early childhood education program by the late 20th century, then the "Infiltrated Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series embodies the new research and practical outcomes of the program in the early 21st century. The involvement of renowned early childhood education experts and frontline early childhood teachers ensures the high degree of unity between 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 the nation's kindergartens with forward-looking and leading early childhood education concepts and high-practicality, premium textbooks for curriculum and teaching reform. In the autumn harvest season of 2005, Nanjing Normal University Press launched the premium book series "Infiltrated 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, based on the psychological and developmental patterns of Chinese children, perfectly maintains the relative independence, completeness, and uniqueness of educational objectives, content, and learning methods in each domain, an irreplaceable feature that no other form of early childhood textbook can replicate.
Building upon these domains, horizontal infiltration is applied to address the unsuitability of highly differentiated and systematic subject-based curricula 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 aligns perfectly with the core philosophy and thematic concepts of the newly promulgated "Kindergarten Education Guidance" by the Ministry of Education, which explicitly states, "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 embodies the spirit of the Ministry of Education's new "Guidance," perfectly reflects the Chinese educational cultural context, and is suitable and beneficial for elevating the practical level of Chinese early childhood education.