These days, there is an emphasis on education in child development in Korea. Early childhood is the most important period in every human developmental stage; physical, emotional, and mental parts. Thus, the education in early childhood should be condu...
These days, there is an emphasis on education in child development in Korea. Early childhood is the most important period in every human developmental stage; physical, emotional, and mental parts. Thus, the education in early childhood should be conducted naturally by a variety of experiences, sensibility, and physical activities, not by knowledge-oriented education which has been conducted until today.
The education based on experience has been adapted, not only domestically, but internationally, and the early childhood education focused on child’s development is especially emphasized in Europe. It’s because the industrialization started earlier in Europe than in other countries, and it leaded to the entry of women in public affair. Consequently, early childhood education was taken charge of by the nation. While it has gone through trial and error, and Now it leaded to the better way. Thus, this study analyzes the theory of cognitive development in early child, the characteristics which can be applied to child education facilities, and the spatial characteristics found in the facilities in Europe.
A space may be deemed to be created by the relationship between objects and the people who perceive them. Also, space cognition may be defined to be made of the perception of a space, integration with experience, and restructuring. Physical factors and visual factors, which are the basic factors composing a space, either play their roles as independent variables in a space or form a relationship through a combination between the factors; thereby, diverse types of space experiences may be created.
Spatial experience generates its significance and becomes vitalized through the process that users move and experience in the space. At this time, the human body perceives space with the scale of emotion and interacts with the space. Spatial experience sometimes becomes unintentional experience within the user’s arbitrary movement or flexible environment according to the view. Therefore, it is important to form living environment allowing various experiences along with space organization inducing children’s active ‘movement’.
Therefore, this article takes as its main study subjects the children who are the subjects of spatial experience in order to draw the characteristics of space organization that can promote natural development in early childhood education facilities based on the theoretical consideration and analysis on the cases of early childhood education facilities in Europe