It Is Not a Toy: Action Research on Pet Curriculum in Preschool

• Main Authors: LI,HSING-CHUAN, 李幸娟
• Other Authors: HUANG,SHU-MAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02309124529967201567

碩士 === 台灣首府大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 102 === The research aims to realize how do preschool educators exercise pet curriculum into developing preschool children’s respecting animals’ life process. The research questions include the strategy of educators’ integrating life education into pet curriculum, the difficulties and solutions of curriculum application, and the effect of the educators’ guiding preschool children respecting the life of animals. The researcher selected the subjects from the children whom she taught in preschool. The cycle model includes planning, action, observation, and reflection. The children’s work, worksheet, parents’ feedback, activity video record and the researcher’s teaching reflection are analyzed and explored. The teaching strategy applied theme teaching curriculum design toward elevating children’s understanding pets, parent-child learning sheets and activity to guide children toward behavior changing in their daily life. The results include: 1. Pets curriculum could be integrated with each learning area toward leading children respecting pets’ life education. 2. Theme activity could be integrated into preschool children’s daily life activity. 3. With the bringing pets into teaching curriculum, preschool children could observe pets and understand more. 4. With parents’ participating animals life with their children, the concept of family with pets are elevated. 5. The pets theme curriculum build children’s ability.