| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 家政教育研究所 === 90 === ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to investigate the children’s experienced curriculum in the kindergarten. The subjects are two 5-year-old boys who attend a kindergarten in central Taiwan. After six weeks of intensive on-site observation, video recording, and interviews, the researcher has analyzed the gathered information in order to understand these two preschoolers’ descriptions and feelings of the curriculum.
The major findings of this study include:
1. The experienced curriculum consists of the curriculum children have perceived and not perceived. The experienced curriculum is unique, and different from the formal curriculum, the teacher perceived curriculum, or the teacher operational curriculum.
2. Children verbally express only part of the curriculum they have perceived. Their participations are irrelevant to their attitudes toward the curriculum.
3. Families’ experiences can influence children’s attitudes toward curriculum while teacher’s supports can encourage and enhance children’s interests.
4. The curriculum children dislike includes the cognition-oriented courses beyond their comprehension, English lessons with communication problems, and events related to the negative emotion.
5. In the situation of group teaching controlled by the teacher, children will use the waiting time to develop their friendship.
This study also discusses the related issues, and lists several suggestions on future research topics and methods.
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