A Study of the Key Competencies of Early Childhood Education

The aims of this study was to explore the key competencies of early childhood education in Taiwan, and to analyze how it can improve curriculum. Through literature review, the comparison of key competencies among different countries, Delphi technique, group meetings and review seminar of subject spe...

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Published inKèchéng yánjiū Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 15
Main Authors Lu, Mei-Gui, Huang, Yueh-Mei, Chen, Yu-Fang
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
English
Published Taipei Angle Publishing Co., Ltd 01.03.2013
Subjects
Core competencies
Core curriculum
Early childhood education
Studies
Taiwan
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Summary:The aims of this study was to explore the key competencies of early childhood education in Taiwan, and to analyze how it can improve curriculum. Through literature review, the comparison of key competencies among different countries, Delphi technique, group meetings and review seminar of subject specialists curriculum specialty, the research got a few important conclusions. First, the expectation considering about children's key competencies is deeply influenced by the Chinese parenting approaches. Secondly, children's key competencies in Taiwan in the research include three dimensions: communicative interaction, social participation, and autonomous action. The research also presented the basic ideas of early childhood curriculum which are the process about taking children whose attitude and ability are cultivated under the Chinese cultural context as the subject of exploration, awareness, understanding and appreciation. In addition to understand early childhood education courses and other stages of phase coherence, the results of this research made many recommendations for policy formulation about early childhood curriculum, and subsequent researchers for reference.
ISSN:1816-5338
2410-3322