美国幼儿教育专家、特夫茨大学教授D·埃肯特最近指出,美国幼儿教育中主要存在着两种错误;这两种错误如不迅速加以纠正,就会使美国的幼儿教育处于危险之中,甚至会摧残幼儿的健康成长。埃肯特认为,美国幼儿教育中的一个十分严重的错误就是:当儿童很小的时候,就对他们进行某一学科或某一方面的教育,如阅读、计算、游泳、体操、芭蕾、健美、武术等;并且在进行这种专门的和固定的教育的过程中,片面强调技能技巧的训练,忽视培养幼儿的兴趣爱好。例如在幼儿的阅读教育中,就存在着下面这些问题:(1)不考虑幼儿个体发展的水平和个人的学习方式;(2)对幼儿的期望太高,阅读训练太正规、太严格;(3)只重视幼儿单一的技能技巧的发展,忽视听、说、读、写技能的综合运用;(4)因加速学习而造成的压力,使幼儿无法自由地运用语言,内化概念;(5)没有使幼 D Erkentry, a professor of early childhood education and professor at the University of Twelve in the United States, recently pointed out two major mistakes in early childhood education in the United States. If these two mistakes are not corrected promptly, they will put the U.S. preschool education at risk. Even destroy the healthy growth of children. According to Eacente, one of the most serious mistakes in early childhood education in the United States is that when children are young, they are given a subject or a certain education, such as reading, counting, swimming, gymnastics, ballet, bodybuilding, Martial arts, etc .; and in carrying out such specialized and regular education, one-sided emphasis on training of skills and skills, neglect to develop children’s hobbies. For example, in reading education for young children, the following problems exist: (1) the level of individual development of young children and the individual’s learning style are not taken into account; (2) the expectations of young children are too high and the reading training is too formal and too strict; 3) focus only on the development of single skills and skills of young children, neglect the comprehensive utilization of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills; (4) the pressure caused by accelerated learning so that young children can not freely use the concepts of language and internalization; Did not make young