How to Infiltrate Multiculturalism in Preschool Education

First, starting from self-reliance and affection, optimize Chinese and western cultural elements.

With the promotion of the family planning policy, great changes have taken place in the family structure in China, from the inherent "pyramid" structure to the "inverted pyramid" structure, which has also led to a fundamental reversal of children's position in the family: from the traditional concept of "obeying parents" to "demanding parents' obedience". At present, China's family dotes on their children to an unprecedented extent. Children have no basic concept of labor and self-reliance, but no concept of self-care for trivial matters that they should be fully competent for, and blindly rely on their parents. Many parents also take this for granted and think it is a sign that children are close to themselves. The existence and spread of this situation is extremely unfavorable to the growth and future development of young children. We should start from the kindergarten, and start to educate young children to penetrate the West for self-reliance, so that students can help parents, children and teachers do what they can. For example, in the family, encourage children to help their mothers put the dishes and chopsticks, or clean the dining table, wash socks and handkerchiefs, and tidy up their schoolbags. At school, I found that the zipper or button on the back of the child was open, so I took the initiative to help the child pull it up or tie it. Help teachers to distribute fruits or snacks to children, help teachers to do duty and cleaning together, and constantly help students to establish a sense of independence and help others. At the same time, we should also encourage children to tell their parents and teachers what they think, encourage children to be close to teachers and parents, and strengthen emotional education. In this way, children can accept the dual influence of Chinese and Western cultures, which not only attaches importance to family ties in China tradition, but also has the independence of the West.

Second, the course content is diversified, and many cultures interact with each other.

Kindergarten curriculum has great autonomy and is not strictly controlled by the education department. Therefore, the curriculum of kindergartens should follow the principle of diversification. It is necessary for children to accept stories related to China's traditional culture, such as lying on the ice looking for carp, catching fireflies and snowing in the door. Let children initially accept cultural elements such as "respect for the elderly", "diligence and thrift" and "respect for teachers" in China culture; Let children accept some western cultural elements, tell them some western fairy tales, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Ugly Duckling and Cinderella, often play some English and French children's songs and watch some simple western paintings, so that children can intuitively feel the western cultural elements. At the same time, teachers should also pay attention to infiltrating some cultural elements of China ethnic minorities, such as riding and shooting of Mongolians, singing and dancing of ethnic minorities, and living habits. Let children grow up in a rich and colorful cultural atmosphere, accept the influence of various cultures, and promote the natural infiltration of various cultural elements, so as to help children become people who can understand two or more cultures in a cultural and democratic atmosphere, so that they can become the main body of their own culture and become capable members. This is of great benefit for children to grow up in different cultural environments in the future.

Third, edify children from diet, clothing and other diversification.

China's folk food culture is profound and enjoys a high reputation in the world. The cultural connotation of China folk diet refers to the dietary ideas and concepts rooted in China culture, which are embodied in the material culture, technical culture and ideological culture of diet. This is a factor that reflects the essential attribute of China's food culture, and it is also the profound and solid ideological origin of China's food culture. In recent years, under the impact of western eating habits, China people's eating habits have changed greatly, especially children prefer foreign fast food. However, both Chinese food and western food have their own cultural characteristics. Teachers only need to show children the different cooking methods and eating habits of Chinese and western food, such as showing their favorite Chinese food and familiar western food with pictures or multimedia, letting Chinese hamburger come to PK Hamburg, and sending people to challenge pizza, tea to compare cola and noodles to fight macaroni. Steak and braised pork ribs compete ... and traditional China costumes and suits can also be displayed at the same time: suit skirts are on the same footing as cheongsam, windbreakers are on the same side as dresses, and Tang suits are comparable to suits ... Let children feel that the differences in eating habits and clothing styles are a natural existence and a natural presentation of the diversity of the world from an early age. Everyone can understand and accept with a peaceful attitude. They can be imperceptibly influenced in a diversified life atmosphere from an early age, and will soon affect children when they grow up.

Fourth, experience multiculturalism with colorful festivals as the carrier.

National festivals are the carrier of national culture, which can reflect the national character and cultural features of different nationalities. Children's acceptance of different festival cultures from an early age plays a vital role in broadening their horizons and enriching cultural accumulation. Kindergartens can carry out activities with the theme of "National Day"; "Mid-Autumn Festival" makes moon cakes, tastes them with parents, and experiences the fruits of labor and affection; Know the origin of "Double Ninth Festival", respect the old and love the young. Let the children participate in the activities, let them know and know our nation, and enhance their national pride. At the same time, let students accept Father's Day, Mother's Day, Halloween, Christmas, April Fool's Day and other western festivals to understand how westerners will spend these festivals. In the past, there was a misunderstanding in our traditional cultural education, that is, we often emphasized the national characteristics by highlighting the sense of difference, while praising the national spirit, we unconsciously belittled other cultures; Or when introducing other cultures, we often compare them with our own culture. As a result, our children are either too inferior or blindly proud. In order to avoid the above misunderstanding, our garden is committed to helping children know and understand the foundation and connotation of their own national culture in multicultural education and learn to respect the diversity of other cultures.

Cultural integration is the trend of historical development. Therefore, it is an inevitable trend of historical development for kindergartens to implement multicultural education based on local culture. We should start with dolls and cultivate future talents who can adapt to multiculturalism.