Thesis information "Research on thinking characteristics of children from 3 to 6 years old" by HVCH Tran Ha Thu, majoring in Psychology.1. Full name of student: Tran Ha Thu 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: November 29, 1986 4. Place of birth: Hanoi 5. Decision on recognition of student No.: 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SĐH dated October 24, 2008 by the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 6. Changes in the training process: None 7. Thesis topic: Research on thinking characteristics of children from 3 to 6 years old. 8. Major: Psychology; Code: 60 31 80 9. Scientific supervisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Truong Thi Khanh Ha - Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. 10. Summary of the results of the thesis: The thesis studies the thinking characteristics of children from 3 to 6 years old (researched at Khanh Li private kindergarten and Hoa Sua kindergarten, Hanoi). The results of the thesis have evaluated the level of development of visual-action thinking and visual-figurative thinking in children from 3 to 6 years old and the influence of educational factors in the family on the development of children's thinking as follows: Results of performing Piaget's exercises: - 100% of children participating in the exercises have not grasped the principles of conservation of mass, quantity, and length. They answer emotionally, based on the external characteristics of objects and phenomena: the height of the water level, the width of the clay block, the length of the row of grains... In their thinking, the reversal operation (reversing the action that has taken place in the mind so that objects and phenomena return to their original position) has not been clearly formed. - 13.3% of preschool children and 26.7% of preschool children are able to arrange the sticks in the correct order according to length. However, some children still perform the operations in an illogical way. The majority of the children are not able to rank. Results of performing visual-action thinking exercises - The visual-action thinking level of preschool children in general is low. Specifically, young preschool children and preschool children are ranked low. Preschool children are ranked average. Results of performing visual-figurative thinking exercises - The visual-figurative thinking level of preschool children in general is average. In which, young preschool children are ranked low. Middle preschool children are ranked average. Preschool children are ranked high. Parents' awareness of the necessary conditions for children's thinking development Most parents are very interested in the issue of thinking development for children. Most parents know about the necessary aspects (nutrition, language, movement, emotions, etc.) for children's intellectual development. The actions that parents often do with their children are: providing nutritious food, answering children's questions, praising children when they do the right thing, guiding and encouraging children when they do the wrong thing. The actions that parents rarely do with their children are: creating a safe space for children to run around and play freely, guiding children to use simple household items and do housework within their ability, taking children to play outside. The most common difficulties that parents encounter in the process of raising children are: children are lazy to eat, do not have knowledge and skills to care for and educate children, do not have support, the house is too small to have space for children to play, there is no playground outside, there is no class to teach children's skills. Parents' education has an impact on children's intellectual development. Many parents have not paid attention to developing the ability to move and manipulate objects, not understanding that this is the basis for the development of children's thinking. 11. Ability to apply in practice: providing some knowledge and skills to develop preschool children's thinking for parents and preschool teachers. 12. Further research directions: Language characteristics, emotional life of children from 0 to 6 years old. 13. Published works related to the thesis: None
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name : Tran Ha Thu 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: November 29, 1986 4. Place of birth: Hanoi 5. Admission decision number: 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SĐH Dated: October 24, 2008 6. Changes in academic process: N/A 7. Official thesis title: Researching on the thinking of children from 3 to 6 years old. 8. Major: Psychology 9. Code: 60 31 80 10. Supervisor: Associate Professor Truong Thi Khanh Ha – Vice Chairman of Psychology Deparment – Social sciences and humanities university. 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: The master's thesis researches on the thinking of children aging from 3 to 6 years old (in Khanh Li private kindergarten and Hoa Sua kindergarten in Hanoi). The findings of the thesis evaluate the development level of visual – action and visual – image thinking of the children from 3 to 6 years old and the influence of family education on their thinking development. Results of doing Piaget's exercises: 100% of the children doing the exercises do not grasp the principles of conservation of weight, number and length. They respond emotionally and mainly based on external characteristics of the materials and phenomena such as: height of the water level, width of clay shape, length of the bead string, etc. They haven't clearly formed the reversion thinking process (reversing actions happened in their thinking to make the phenomena back to the initial position). 13.3% of the children in the middle class of the kindergarten and 26.7% ones in the eldest-class are able to correctly arrange things in order of length. However, some of them arranged illogically. The majority of them are not capable of ranking. Results of doing the exercises of action thinking: The level of visual – action thinking of kindergarten children is just low. Among them, the youngest and middle class rank the low. The eldest class ranks average. Results of doing the exercises of image thinking: The level of visual – image thinking of kindergarten children is just average. Among them, the youngest class ranks the lowest; middle one moderate; and eldest highest. Parents' awareness of necessary conditions for children's thinking development: Most of the parents do care of their kids' thinking development. The majority of parents know necessary factors (such as nutrition, linguistics, movement and emotions, ect.) for children's thinking development. What parents often do are: feed nutritious meal, answer kids' questions, evaluate them when they do right, guide and encourage them when they are wrong. What parents do not often do are: create safe environment for kids to play, instruct them to use simple household items, let them do proper housework, and bring them out. The difficulties that parents meet the most when teaching their children include: lazy infant eaters, lack of knowledge and skills of caring and educating children, lack of housework assistant, narrow house with no entertainment place for children, no outside playground, and no class teaching skills of raising them. Parent's education methods affect children's thinking development. Many parents do not pay attention to develop movement skills and manipulate with objects. They do not understand that this is the basis for the development of childrent's thinking 12. Practical applicability: Providing knowledge and skills for parents and nursery school teachers to develop children's thinking. 13. Further research directions: Children's language and emotions from 0 to 6 years old 14. Thesis – related publications: N/A
