Benefits of Building Child-centered Learning Environment in Kindergarten

Abstract

Fundamental and comprehensive innovation is an indispensable requirement of Vietnam's education in the current period. For preschool education, one of the important contents of educational innovation is child-centered education. This is an educational perspective based on children's interests and needs in order to correctly evaluate, respect and promote each child's abilities and strengths. For the best and effective implementation of child-centered education, building a child-centered education environment in preschools is necessary and indispensable. The educational environment in a preschool is a combination of necessary physical and social conditions that directly affect child care and education. To build a child-centered educational environment is to build a physical and social environment that gives children the opportunity to learn in many different ways through play. It is an environment where the interests, needs, abilities and strengths of each child are always respected and the development of all children's potentials is promoted. This study reports the results of research demonstrates that building an educational environment from a child-centered perspective is quite important. Building a child-centered educational environment is a process of designing and using a physical environment and a psycho-social environment in organizing activities for children to create conditions for children to experience and operate abilities appropriately, preferences, suitable for each level of development of preschool children.