Then let's talk about what an advanced kindergarten looks like and what conditions it meets. Let's start with the educational concept and environment. The following statement is based on our 6 years' experience in preschool education design. If there is anything unreasonable, welcome to discuss!
Here we don't talk about the best, most advanced, most elite or most famous educational ideas in the world, such as Montessori, Reggio, Waldorf, Froebel and DAP, because we have always emphasized:
Having said that, I have to remind you that if you let the kindergarten children enter the primary school knowledge in advance, it will only give them a few more years of skill advantage, and then they will lose their desire to visit this unknown, and there may be "harm" in the future!
Therefore, we believe that what can evaluate a high-end kindergarten is that it emphasizes not "teaching" but "learning", so that children can discover the world spontaneously!
If you can describe it in one sentence, it is "help me do it myself" and "please help me so that I can do it myself"
Instead of "help me do it" and "help me do it"
Teachers exist only to help them and help them become people who have the ability to take care of themselves, others and the environment. In the end, the ideal state will be that even if the teacher is not there, the child can do his own thing independently, self-disciplined and intently.
Under such education, the child will be a mature individual! After all, each child's personality characteristics, natural ability, development track and so on are different. Only the "independent educational concept" can truly make every child's body and mind, potential and emotion fully developed.
When it comes to environmental education, it is necessary to review the process of an old saying! Environmental education will truly become the core of contemporary preschool education. The influence of environment on people's survival and development is generally inversely proportional to age. The younger the age, the deeper the influence of environment. Of course, we don't emphasize it for advertising ourselves, but the market is proving the importance of environmental education! This will also be another business opportunity for kindergartens!
What should the educational environment of senior kindergartens be like? We think it should be able to satisfy the child to explore the unknown environment, rather than let him be in a sterile and closed environment!
As Japanese couple Keiji Tezuka and Yubi Tezuka said, "I don't train them, we put them on the roof, just like sheep, and they keep running." My opinion is to leave them alone and not to protect them too much. They may fall down and get hurt, but this is society. They need to learn to help each other and learn how to survive in this world, which is precisely the lack of education in today's society. "
This is an educational environment that allows children to be as close to life as possible, feel nature and love life. And the Japanese Fujino kindergarten they designed is also called the best kindergarten that many people have never seen!
What conditions do you need to meet the educational environment that children explore? Let's simply select a few important points to explain!
▌ Color matching will be the first condition.
It is a common problem for many kindergartens in China to use pure and bright colors in a large area. Using the same three primary colors will also make the color environment of kindergartens too dull; At the same time, some kindergartens use too many colors, which not only makes the whole kindergarten building look messy, but also easily causes visual pollution, which is not conducive to the healthy development of children's body and mind.
The key to color matching is that harmonious tones unify the overall effect of the environment. When decorating, you can't overemphasize the richness of colors, which will easily cause visual confusion to children. In particular, using colorful and chaotic colors to decorate the activity space can easily make children feel irritable and distracted, and it is difficult to distinguish the real size and distance of objects. Affect the child's mood, the picture is scattered, and the environment makes the child's mentality fidgety and unable to concentrate.
Just like when we designed the Foshan Green Garden Early Education Center, we used a lot of white to decorate the whole space, and at the same time skillfully used some lively entertainment facilities and unique childlike art wall paintings to decorate the space, so that the colors of the whole environment would not look too dull, but just right!
Free communication space will be a necessary requirement.
This is a diverse space for children to communicate and feel the vitality of nature. This is also conducive to the establishment of social behaviors such as enthusiasm, enjoyment, communication and tolerance, and of course, the pressure of study and frustration will be greatly reduced.
After all, communication and nature can let children freely put themselves in space to develop their abilities, so they must not be blocked in the whole environmental design. For example, we designed their open activity space through the patio in Cui Yi Zundi Kindergarten of IEC. In Lebeier Kindergarten, we have all kinds of interesting and interactive personalized activity spaces.
It is necessary to design with children's eyes.
I wonder if you have found that many kindergartens seem to be designed for adults to learn, such as excessive pursuit of luxury facilities and economic benefits while ignoring environmental safety factors; There are many steel game devices with sharp edges and corners; At the same time, for the convenience of transportation, it is used in kindergartens in busy areas, which leads to more and more serious traffic safety problems for children.
So it's really important to find the right person to design! From the standpoint of children, domain design puts forward the viewpoint of respecting, loving and developing children's personality according to their characteristics! We never create space, but design with "children's eyes", which conforms to children's nature, meets children's growth needs, realizes the interaction between the environment and children, and gives children the freedom to explore. Through the complex spatial organization of different substances, create a learning, living and playing environment suitable for children's ability development and potential development.
Therefore, an advanced kindergarten is not only reflected in the price, but in all aspects. And the most intuitive performance will be environmental education! Whether the design of the whole space meets the needs of children's independent growth!