What is the significance of early childhood dance education

Dance is an indispensable educational content for the growth of young children, dance is of great significance to young children's physical fitness, intelligence, aesthetics, emotions and other aspects, which can significantly promote the healthy growth of young children's physical and mental health. Therefore, in the early childhood education system, teachers should pay full attention to the value and significance of dance education for the growth of young children, and find ways to improve the level of education, so that young children can better realize their own development.

1. Promote the intellectual development of young children

The early childhood is the key stage of a person's intellectual development. Through various ways, young children constantly cognize the external world, actively think and explore knowledge, thus promoting the development of the brain and enhancing the ability and level of thinking. Dance, as an art, requires young children to use body language to express their thoughts and feelings and the beauty of their bodies. Through observation, imitation, training and performance in dance learning, young children can mobilize the nerves, bones and muscles of the whole body to ****together complete movements full of creativity and artistic beauty. This requires young children to concentrate their attention, memorize, think and understand, and grasp the dance movements full of variations. In this process, the young children's thinking acuity and depth of thinking will be greatly developed, and the young children exercise their thinking ability and improve their understanding in a subtle way.

2. Cultivate children's will and team spirit

In today's society, most families have only one child, so parents will take extra care of their children and even spoil them. Excessive pampering makes young children too delicate and capricious, and most young children are active, like new things, rich in the spirit of exploration, but the perseverance is limited, psychological fragility and instability, easy to run away from the difficulties encountered, and always tend to give up when encountered failure.

Learning to dance requires patience, repeated training, and sweat and hard work in the process of imitation and creation in order to learn dance skills. Therefore, early childhood dance education can sharpen the heart of young children, prompting young children to overcome the difficulties, shaping the tenacious character, enhance the sense of perseverance to the end, cultivate the spirit of perseverance, correcting the psychological problems of timidity and shyness, so that young children gradually face the frustration of the ordinary heart, with the qualities of hard-working and enduring, and in the long term dance training, the dare to accept the challenge, understand the truth of the bitter sweet, and know how to face the adversity of life. The children will also learn how to face the adversities of life.

The youngest children are young and easy to be self-centered, and are accustomed to being "overbearing" and not able to deal with the relationship between themselves and their partners and the collective. Collective dance is the main form of dance teaching in young children, in the process of dance learning, collective dance is the main training content, through the neat and tidy formation, movement, show the children's dance skills. In this way, young children need to cooperate with each other and sharpen their dance movements. In teamwork, each child has to contribute to the collective strength, in repeated training, the children's team spirit will gradually increase, the sense of teamwork will be formed. It can be said that early childhood dance education is conducive to the cultivation of young children's sense of teamwork and collaboration.

3. Enhancement of creativity and aesthetic sense of temperament

For young children, dance is a game of physical movement, a way of self-knowledge and creation of body language. Through dance education, young children can learn many standardized dance movements and perform more complex dances. In the process of imitation, young children will incorporate their own understanding, will recreate dance movements, and will creatively adapt them. Although this adaptation is emotional, it can enhance the understanding of beauty, thus creating more childlike dance movements and making dance learning more personalized. Early childhood dance education is not test-oriented, but to cultivate the interest of young children, is to initially lay the young children's artistic literacy as the main goal, so it has a strong openness, which allows young children to fully create dance movements and show a distinctive side. Dance is an important art form of the human body dynamic modeling of beauty, through dance learning, young children's physical movements are more aesthetically pleasing, limb movements are more flexible, light, making their every move is full of artistic temperament, full of self-confidence, remain optimistic, in the dance training and performances to show the beauty of the body, prompting dynamic dance posture and elegant temperament echoed, *** with the shaping of young children's unique temperament of beauty.