This book aims to help teachers clarify the concept and significance of autonomy, the characteristics of children's autonomous development, distinguish the relationship between freedom and autonomy, and the relationship between autonomous play, autonomous learning and autonomous life, and clarify many misunderstandings and ambiguities in the practice of early childhood education.
Independent play, independent study and independent life are the basic goals and contents of early childhood education, and also the basic direction of early childhood education reform. The innovative talents needed by the future society must be people with autonomy, initiative and creativity. Therefore, it is of great significance to respect the characteristics and needs of children's development, support children's independent development, and let children enhance their self-growth in independent games, independent learning, independent life and independent experience.
Autonomous games emphasize that teachers trust children, let children choose freely, grasp the content and process of the game independently, and play the game by themselves. Autonomous learning is a process in which children take their own problems, solve them in their own way and develop according to their own wishes. Autonomous life emphasizes that children can try to arrange their own time, make their own choices and plans, control their own toys and other items, learn to serve themselves independently and enjoy the fruits of their labor, realize the development of self-awareness and self-ability in independent life, and learn to take care of their physical and mental health responsibly.