Abstract:

“Kindergarten primary schoolization” of kindergarten education is a misunderstanding in preschool education, which refers to ignoring the laws of physical and mental development of children, treating them as a reduced version of primary school students, blindly moving closer to primary schools, and even applying curriculum content, teaching methods and corresponding teaching requirements suitable for primary school students directly to children. Neo-institutionalism theory is suitable for judging and managing the problem of kindergarten primary schoolization. According to the cost-benefit action rule, the founders of private parks establish supply decisions, aiming to compete for students; Given the shortage of government resource allocation in some regions, some private kindergartens prefer to seek “internal legitimacy” from parents; The mandatory elements of the preschool education quality evaluation system have gradually weakened, and some private kindergartens have developed different cultural-cognitive logics. Fundamentally reversing the kindergarten primary schoolization is a social system project. It is necessary to effectively reconcile the tension and conflict between “external legitimacy” and “internal legitimacy” in the quality evaluation system of private kindergartens.

Key words: neo-institutionalism theory, private kindergarten, kindergarten and primary school transition, quality of preschool education, kindergarten primary schoolization