Music. Kindergarten (Upper)

Author: Xu Zhuoya, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series is 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, Vice President of the Chinese 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; and ten experts, along with over 100 early childhood education researchers, renowned kindergarten directors, and distinguished and core teaching staff. This series represents an advancement and development based on the influential Nanjing Normal University early childhood textbooks (commonly known as the "Five Major Domains") that were popular across the country in the 20th century. 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 "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series embodies the new research and practical outcomes of the early childhood education program at Nanjing Normal University in the early 21st century. The involvement of renowned early childhood education experts and frontline 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 the country's kindergarten curriculum and teaching reform with forward-looking and leading early childhood education concepts and high-practicality premium textbooks. In the autumn harvest season of 2005, Nanjing Normal University Press once again powerfully launched the premium book series "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens." This series fully implements the "Kindergarten Education Guidance Outline": 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 the educational objectives, content, and learning methods of each domain, which cannot be replaced by any other form of early childhood education materials. While permeating horizontally based on these domains, it addresses the unsuitability of highly differentiated and systematic subject courses in kindergarten curricula, actively seeks connections between educational content across different domains, and integrates them to ultimately form 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 Outline" by the Ministry of Education. The "Kindergarten Education Guidance Outline" explicitly states that "the content of the five major domains should be relatively divided and mutually infiltrating." Without a doubt, the "Infiltrating Domain Curriculum for Kindergartens" series fully aligns with the spirit of the Ministry of Education's new "Outline," perfectly embodies the Chinese educational cultural context, and is suitable and beneficial for elevating the practical level of Chinese early childhood education.