Kindergarten:feature of the beseto countries
The fact that children are the hope of the future is true now and in the past, in the West and the East.
In the end of the 17th C when the West was just beginning to acknowledge children as individual personalities, the East already had forms of education recognizing children as a perfect human being.
In the Beseto Countries, such traditional children education ideas and Western educational systems have combined into unique forms of children education, preparing for the future.
In China there are many kindergartens that have dormitories that provide board and lodging to the children.
Children eat and sleep in the kindergarten and return home only once a week. The kindergarten is not just an educational organization, but a place that takes responsibility of a child's upbringing.
Another unique characteristic of kindergartens in China is that most learning are done through games. Physical education, language skills, common knowledge, math, music, and art are educated naturally through various games and play.
In kindergartens of Japan you can see children wearing the same clothes and hats. This shows the character of Japanese kindergartens laying great importance on collectiveness.
Group order and law is emphasized, and education of manners is also an important subject of education. Through such educational methods, children develop self-restraint, modesty, and thoughts centered around the whole.
They learn not to think of one's own wants, but to think for the good of the group.
Korea lays importance on the development of children's emotional levels. For this, various educational programs are used and children develop their own emotions through diverse experiences. Through such methods, children are educated into independent personalities with their own individualities, and learn to form new ideas and ways of thinking.
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