Preschool Multiple Intelligence Activity Open Curriculum Teacher Guide Social Interaction First Semester

Author: Mo Wanming
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This series of six books for the first semester is based on the newly promulgated Guiding for Kindergarten Education by the Ministry of Education, reviewed by the School of Education at Beijing Normal University, and guided by the China Multiple Intelligence Education Association. The six books are titled: Social—Interaction, Art—Creativity, Health—Movement, Science—Exploration, Language—Expression, and Mathematics—Operation. The Guiding for Kindergarten Education explicitly states that the fundamental task of kindergarten education is to "lay a solid foundation for children's lifelong development." Among these, social education for young children is a very important learning area. It aims to develop children's social skills, with its core focus being to guide children in learning how to be good people. Its content includes enhancing children's social cognition, stimulating their social emotions, and guiding their social behaviors.
First, it promotes the development of children's social cognition. Children's social cognition includes self-awareness, awareness of others, awareness of social environments and phenomena, and awareness of social norms.
Second, it promotes the development of children's social emotions. Early childhood is a critical period for emotional development.
Third, it promotes the development of children's social behaviors and skills. Social behavior refers to individual behavior that varies with social contexts, with basic expressions such as facial expressions, posture, speech, and activities. Some social behaviors are constrained by certain rules, so the ability to engage in such behaviors is known as corresponding behavioral skills. In summary, the development of children's social skills involves the establishment of interpersonal relationships, the socialization of emotions, the development of gender behavior, the development of prosocial behavior, and the development of aggressive behavior.