幼儿是否具有理想这一心理现象?如果有,是否需要对幼儿进行理想教育?怎样进行理想教育?前段时间,笔者带着这些问题,进行了一番调查研究。调查采用单独谈话法。谈话的问题是:“你长大了,要当什么?为什么想当××?”调查对象为两所幼儿园的各年龄班幼儿172名(其中男孩80名,女孩92名)。通过调查,发现幼儿期理想具有以下特点: (一)幼儿期理想发展是初步的,不稳定的幼儿期初步产生的自我理想,是幼稚的、朦胧的,实际上是一种具体、形象的想象。幼儿在社会生活中受各种各样、各行各业人物的影响。他们往往从自我的评价出发,以这些人物自居,模仿这些人物的言行,并常常在游戏中表现出来。这就是幼儿期产生的初步的自我理想。幼儿的理想稳定性差,易受周围环境的影响而发生变化。他们理想的出现常常是诱因于特殊的情景和理想形象的外部特征。常常不考虑自身的能力、知识 If young children have the ideal of this psychological phenomenon? If so, whether it is necessary for children’s ideal education? How to carry out ideal education? Some time ago, the author took these questions, conducted some research. The investigation uses a separate talk method. The question of the conversation is: “When you grow up, what should you do and why you want to be ××?” The survey included 172 young children of all ages (80 boys and 92 girls) from two kindergartens. Through the investigation, it is found that the ideal of early childhood has the following characteristics: (1) The ideal development of early childhood is preliminary. The self-ideal initially generated in unstable childhood is naive and hazy, which is actually a concrete and imaginative imagination . Children in the social life by a wide variety of people from all walks of life influence. They tend to start from the self-evaluation, these characters themselves, to imitate the words and deeds of these characters, and often manifested in the game. This is the initial self-ideal that comes out of early childhood. Children’s ideal stability is poor, vulnerable to changes in the surrounding environment. Their ideal appearance is often an external feature that is motivated by particular situations and idealistic images. Often do not consider their own ability, knowledge