Author(s)

Haiou Zhang, Shijun Xu

Corresponding Author

Shijun Xu

ABSTRACT

Chinese kindergarten teachers' poor scientific literacy has weakened the education of children's science field and even their teaching contents that have violated the principles and practices of science and technology. Taking the combination of theory and practice, from the top design to the educational practice, this paper studies the science and technology literacy of the kindergarten teachers, proposing three unique manifestations in the early childhood science education activities to create a circular interaction concept analogy to Qian Xuesen's thoughts of technical science, which conforms to the constructivist education activities of kindergarten teachers. The model of "interaction between theory and practice" is constructed based on this concept with the implementa-tion strategy of "reducing theory" in science and technology theory and "swelling practice" in scien-tific and technological experience though academic education and continuing education using re-sources of colleges, society and network. This model which has achieved good practice results pro-vides a reference for improving the science-technology literacy for kindergarten teachers in devel-oping countries.

KEYWORDS

Preschool teacher, Scientific literacy, Interaction, Theory, Practice