What is the value of social education in kindergartens?

1. helps children develop good self-awareness and establish correct self-concept.

Social education for children, starting from the children themselves, and giving them full respect and good education can help children understand themselves correctly, accept themselves and develop positive self-awareness; Giving children opportunities to realize their self-worth and experience success can cultivate their self-esteem and self-confidence; Giving children the right and opportunity to communicate and talk can help them learn to evaluate themselves. Giving children the right to choose freely and make their own decisions can cultivate children's independence, autonomy and awareness and ability to be responsible for their actions; Carrying out a variety of effective series of activities can help them learn self-control.

For example, carrying out social education activities about self can help children clearly understand their external characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and understand whether their behavior is appropriate, which is helpful for children to develop their self-management ability, such as taking care of their bodies and objects and managing their daily lives.

2. Help children to form positive emotions and cultivate a healthy personality.

Social education for children can help them form positive emotions in social life and communication with others, and help them understand their own and others' emotions. Teachers should understand and allow children to express their true emotions, meet their emotional needs through positive and quality responses, and adopt effective strategies to guide children to deal with emotional problems in daily life. Social education for children and cultivating their good personality can lay the foundation for their healthy growth. By creating a relaxed and free environment and atmosphere for children, teachers guide children to choose independently from their interests and internal needs, fully accept the existing differences and development differences between children, and let each child have the opportunity to discover and show his own advantages. In the process of playing games, activities and communicating with peers, stimulating children's intrinsic motivation and producing pleasant emotional experience are conducive to cultivating children's healthy, cheerful and lively personality.

It helps children to improve their interpersonal skills and adapt to social life.

Interpersonal communication is the main content of children's social learning and the basic way of children's social development. In the process of interacting with adults and peers, children not only learn how to get along with others, but also learn how to treat themselves and others, and constantly develop their ability to adapt to social life. Children do not know how to communicate with others because of their immature physical and mental development, lack of social experience and necessary communication skills and strategies. Therefore, children's social education focuses on improving children's social communication ability, guiding children to learn the methods and skills of communicating with others through various activities, helping children to enrich their communication experience and improve their social communication ability in home community cooperation.

4. Help children to promote social learning and socialization.

Social learning is a process in which individuals master social knowledge, experience, behavior norms and skills to meet social needs. Everyone lives in a certain social environment. From birth, children will gradually grow from a "natural person" to a "social person". Of course, if an individual wants to grow into a member of social life, he needs to associate with others in society and learn the corresponding social experience. He must learn and accept the unique values, customs and codes of conduct of the society in which he lives. If deprived of this right to learn, children will always stay at the level of "natural person" or "biological person" and cannot grow into "social person" with social experience.

The socialization of children is a complicated process, and positive socialization does not always happen naturally. It requires educators to create a positive educational environment and influence it appropriately. An important task of kindergarten social education is to create an educational environment for children according to the positive and healthy social value orientation, guide children to realize positive socialization purposefully and consciously, and help children form positive values and good social behavior habits.