Early childhood education is closely related to the environment. The impact of the environment on people's survival and development is generally inversely proportional to age. The younger the age, the more profound the impact of the environment.
The way of thinking of young children based on wisdom determines that they have a comprehensive instinct to learn and absorb the environment in which they live. The environment they are in is always a learning and education environment. Therefore, Dehuizhi early childhood education attaches great importance to the impact of the environment on young children.
Dehuizhi Education’s general requirements for the learning environment of young children can be summarized in four words: “the best to control water.”
Laozi pointed out in the "De Dao Jing": "The best is to control water. Water is good for all things and has tranquility. It is disliked by everyone, so it is close to the Tao."
"Controlling water with the best goodness" means to govern, manage, regulate and cultivate our water of life with the virtues of the best virtue, so as to return life to the path of morality ; "Controlling water with the best goodness" means treating all things with gratitude and praise.
About eighty percent of a young child’s body is water. Water has functions such as listening, seeing, feeling, and memory. It can react and change accordingly to all kinds of information and energy. It is the best carrier.
Actively use the pure virtues of the highest good to manage the water in children's lives. By treating it well, the water can change its moral character, thus benefiting the lives of children.
"Water is good for all things and brings tranquility." After the water in the body is virtuous, it can make people quiet, purify and sublimate the spirit.
environment includes physical environment and qualitative environment.
The physical environment is the physical environment that can be perceived by the physical senses.
The physical environment plays an important role in the generation of acquired physiological functions of children's eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, the establishment of good governance, and the development of intelligence.
The creation of the external physical environment must first conform to the characteristics of the development of the physical physical environment of young children, and is based on the protection of the innate and acquired functions of the first five faculties of children.
For example, it is not advisable to use strong light or layouts with too strong and complicated colors to protect the eyesight of young children;
It is not advisable to play recordings too loudly to avoid exposing children to excessive noise for a long time to protect them.
It is not advisable to use strong-smelling unnatural spices to protect children's nose recognition function;
The food provided to young children should have a light and natural taste, and try to avoid the use of chemical additives to protect children's tongue recognition function, etc.
The material environment refers to the spiritual environment that cannot be perceived with the physical senses but exists objectively.
The physical environment is an environmental form that transcends the three-dimensional object phase and is integrated with the physical phase. The physical image can not only be combined with the object, but also get rid of the constraints and constraints of the physical phase. It is an external environment that exists in a high-dimensional physical form.
Because young children have a strong degree of freedom between physical and material images, and have rich perceptions, the material and image environment directly affects the children's spiritual systems, especially their innate wisdom.
The good and evil nature of the material environment has a significant effect on directly nourishing or damaging the innate wisdom of young children. Therefore, we must attach great importance to the construction of good governance of the quality environment of young children.
This article is excerpted from "Introduction to Early Childhood Education" by Mr. Xiong Chunjin , Modern Education Press , 1st edition in September 2015, 3rd printing in July 2022
