幼儿在幼儿园中整日地进行着积木建筑、“糕点”制作之类的各种游戏。这是否在浪费时间?这些时间可否用来从事正规的学习? 许多家长对于幼儿园眼下这种“尽是游戏”的做法感到失望,要求“改革”,认为应在幼儿园中加强对幼儿的读、写、算基本三会教学。此论当否?一些有识之士的回答是否定的。19世纪德国教育家福禄培尔提出的关于幼儿应通过游戏而学习的理论,虽然年久日长,但依然是无可厚非的。伦敦内城区教育当局负责幼儿教育的官员安·柏纳德特强调说,眼下各地幼儿园“在读、写、算基本三会教学方面并不是无所作为的,只不过它们不是象 Toddlers perform various kinds of games such as building blocks and “cakes” all day in kindergarten. Is this a waste of time? Can these hours be used for regular learning? Many parents are disappointed with kindergarten’s “game-for-all” approach, calling for “reform,” believing that kindergartens should strengthen their reading and writing of young children , Considered the basic three will teach. Whether this theory? Some people of insight’s answer is no. The theory put forward by Foupeppe, a 19th-century German educator, that young children should learn through games, is still understandable. Ann Bonadate, an officer in charge of early childhood education in the inner-city education authority in London, stressed that kindergartens are "doing nothing in reading, writing, and counting basic three sessions of teaching, but they are not like