The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of project-based art gallery-school co-operation on the visual literacy and collaborative skills of pre-service early childhood teachers in higher vocational colleges, and to provide recommendations ...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of project-based art gallery-school co-operation on the visual literacy and collaborative skills of pre-service early childhood teachers in higher vocational colleges, and to provide recommendations for improvement for pre-service early childhood teachers at the higher vocational colleges. Taking 42 sophomore pre-service early childhood teachers of a higher vocational college in Hunan Province as the survey object, we conducted a questionnaire survey on their visual literacy and cooperative skills, and used the test differences to analyze and study the differences in the visual literacy cooperative skills of pre-service early childhood teachers in higher vocational colleges before and after the development of the projected art gallery-school co-operation. We also analyzed the differences in the acceptance of the teaching mode and the acceptance of the non-acceptance of the teaching mode after the teaching mode was developed, and made reflections and suggestions. The differences between the pre-test and post-test of visual literacy and cooperative skills of early childhood preparatory teachers in higher vocational colleges were analyzed, and the effects of project-based art gallery-school co-operation on the visual literacy and cooperative skills of pre-service early childhood teachers in higher vocational colleges were concluded, and reflections and suggestions were put forward. The conclusions show that first the results of internal comparison within a single group indicate that before and after the implementation of the project-based art gallery-school co-operation mode, the visual literacy (including seven dimensions, etc.) as well as the cooperative skills (including seven dimensions, etc.) and its dimensions of early childhood education majors in higher vocational colleges have a significant improvement, whereas the comparison of the visual literacy and cooperation ability scores as well as their dimensions of early childhood education majors in higher vocational colleges of the control group before and after the implementation of the project-based art gallery-school co-operation mode does not have a significant difference. Second, the results of the comparison between the two groups show that before the implementation, there is no significant difference between the visual literacy and cooperative skills scores and their dimensions of the early childhood education majors in higher vocational colleges in the experimental group and the control group, while after the implementation of the project-based art gallery-school co-operation mode, the difference between the mean scores and standard deviations of the early childhood education majors in higher vocational colleges in the experimental and the control groups in terms of their visual literacy and cooperative skills and their dimensions has reached a significant level. reached the level of significance. Keywords: project-based; art gallery-school co-operation; higher vocational colleges; pre-service early childhood teachers; visual literacy; cooperative skills