| （1.School of Sports and Science，Nantong University，Nantong 226007，China；2.Xinglin College，Nantong University，Nantong 226007，China） Abstract: ZHANG Zong-lin was a famous infant educator in the history of modern education in China. He devoted his entire life to the study of infant education, established scientific views on infant education, thought that infant education should base its center on infant activities (games). ZHANG Zong-lin advocated the guiding ideology of “health first”, revealed that infants have such psychological characteristics as “loving games” and “liking outdoor activities”, recommended that games should be the main content and form of infant education, and that game selec-tion should fit into the natural trend of infants and 14 principles should be followed when a teacher is taking care of children playing a game. ZHANG Zong-lin not only valued games ideologically, but also devoted himself to educa-tion practice physically, did a lot of activities of game practice at Nanjing Gulou Kindergarten and Xiaozhuang Vil-lage Kindergarten. Today, when the Kindergarten Education Guideline (Trial) is being implemented and physical education curriculum reform is being boosted, many of ZHANG Zong-lin’s views on infant games should be re-ferred to and developed in a scientific and rational way, so as to better promote quality education implemented by kindergartens and comprehensively enhance education quality of kindergartens.
Key words: pre-school physical education；infant education；game；ZHANG Zong-lin |
