Research on Zhang Xuemen's Ideas on Preschool Teacher Education and Its Practical Significance

Abstract

The ideas on preschool teacher education proposed by Mr. Zhang Xuemen are based on his own summary of educational experience and continuous research, forming a complete and systematic ideological system. It mainly emphasizes the role of internships, dividing them into four stages: observation, practice teaching, and guidance, and provides timely and feasible methods and detailed operations. Zhang Xuemen's ideas on preschool teacher education have promoted the development of preschool teacher education. It has shifted the focus from theoretical books to practice and organically integrated theory and practice. Zhang Xuemen's ideas on preschool teacher education are of great significance to the development of preschool teacher education in China. This article believes that the core of Zhang Xuemen's ideas on preschool teacher education lies in emphasizing the role of kindergarten practice, pragmatically addressing practical issues in the training of preschool teachers in China, actively recommending the establishment of practice bases, and designing the details of kindergarten practice in a comprehensive manner. Based on Zhang Xuemen's ideas on preschool teacher education, some educational inspirations have been obtained, such as the diversification of educational practice places and their interconnection, the appropriate dispersion of internship time throughout the process, the systematic organization and planning of educational internships, the diversity and depth of educational internship content, the cultivation of professional emotions, and the sense of responsibility among trainees through educational internships.