A Study on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Integrating the Traditional Culture of the 24 Solar Terms into the Kindergarten Curriculum

Wu Junmei

doi:10.30560/ier.v8n3p47

Wu Junmei School of Education, Weifang University of Science and Technology, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30560/ier.v8n3p47

Keywords: Twenty-Four Solar Terms, traditional culture, kindergarten curriculum, countermeasures research

Abstract

As a crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese farming civilization, the 24 solar terms carry the natural philosophy of the unity of man and nature and the aesthetics of life. The current kindergarten curriculum has a superficial tendency to absorb the culture of festivals and seasons: activities focus on single festivals such as the winter solstice and the Qingming Festival, and lack a systematic design throughout the year; urbanization has weakened the children's direct experience of perceiving changes in the weather, and the lack of teaching materials and teachers has further exacerbated the faults in the cultural inheritance. Incorporating festivals into early childhood education is not only a response to the policy direction of traditional cultural revival, but also an inevitable way to cultivate children's natural cognition and humanistic sentiments by observing the awakening of insects in the wake of hibernation and measuring the sunshine at the summer solstice, etc. It is urgent to build a scientific and localized curriculum paradigm.

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