Is learning center only a place to play？－A case study of young children's exploration learning in learning center

• Main Authors: Lin Yu-Hsueh, 林毓雪
• Other Authors: 林佩蓉老師
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64892354970751272994

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 96 === The purpose of this research is to understand the young children’s exploration learning at learning center, and to investigate what factors would influence young children’s exploration learning at kindergarten through the case study. All of the research questions are included: What learning center do the young children choose? Why it will be chosen? What do the children explore in learning center? How do they explore? Which factors influence young children’s learning in learning center? How do the factors influence? The research field of this case is the Kindergarten which orient toward the learning center in teaching method. The subject is a 5-year-old girl. The researcher is partici¬pant observation's role, The duration of the partici¬pant observation is one year. This research adopts the quality research technique. Research methods are including observations, field notes, interviews, video recordings, and so on. The interview object are including the teachers, the children and the children's mother; the collection material divides into three aspects: Children, teacher and researcher, children aspect including interview and children's creations; teacher aspect including the interview, the teaching diary and communication book; researcher aspect including observer’s record, discusses with experts. The findings of this study are as follows: The factors that influence children to choose the learning center are including children’s personal motive and interest, and the interaction between teacher and children in the classroom. The children’s transformation of learning experience includes: the central activity viewpoint which from “play” to accept “work”, from just scratches the surface transformation into the thorough inquisition ,being willing to take steps with plan, manufactured goods completely faster to perfect, and developing the cooperation relationships with the associates. By way of the center activity to push the children in the cognitive development, there are further studies to the social development and the skill development, and the cognitive development aspect contains: Problem solving ability, plan and representation ability and with center activity related concept, for example, sequence concept and play concept; The social development aspect contains: Cooperation ability, leadership, the role-taking ability and communication consultation ability; The skill development aspect includes: The use of tools and materials and manufacturing fine goods and so on. The factors which affect the children exploration learning the context includes: how do teachers operate the learning center, the teacher and student interaction and the associates interacts. Finally, proposed to opinions of teach vs. study and lists several suggestions on research methods.