The three core dimensions of patriotic education in kindergartens, including symbolic cognition, cultural narration, and emotional cultivation, work together to construct an enlightenment path for national identity. Picture book teaching, through the transformation of cultural symbols, the deepening of cognitive enlightenment and the sublimation of emotional experience, has become a vivid carrier of patriotic education. However, in current practice, there are practical dilemmas, such as insufficient adaptability in the selection of picture books, rigid teaching methods, fragmented curriculum design, and low-efficiency in the cooperation between kindergartens and families, the root causes of are systematic contradictions, such as teachers' insufficient professional capabilities, rigid teaching concepts, the absence of curriculum planning and the lack of a cooperation mechanism. To address these issues, this thesis puts forward some collaborative innovation strategies, such as constructing a hierarchical teacher training system, developing a diversified interactive teaching model, establishing a thematic curriculum framework, and improving the cooperation mechanism between kindergartens and families.

Yunjia Liang, Lu Li, Yanfei Cai, Fan Liu. Research on the Practical Dilemmas and Innovative Approaches of Patriotic Education in Kindergartens from the Perspective of Picture Book Teaching. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 4: 72-79. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070411.

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