SocialCommunicationAbilityofChildreninaMiddleClassofaKindergartenASocialNetworkAnalysis.PDFVIP

Advances in Education 教育进展, 2015, 5, 29-38 Published Online May 2015 in Hans. /journal/ae /10.12677/ae.2015.53006 Social Communication Ability of Children in a Middle Class of a Kindergarten: A Social Network Analysis 1 1 2 1 1 3 1* Ying Wang , Lin Tian , Yun Cheng , Lihong Zhang , Xiaojun Cao , Guang Zhao , Shen Tu 1 Institute of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong Sichuan 2 Institute of Teacher Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong Sichuan 3 School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian Liaoning * Email: shentu614@ th th th Received: Apr. 17 , 2015; accepted: May 7 , 2015; published: May 13 , 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Children’s interpersonal skills play a very important role in their future development and social adaptation. Cultivating children’s interpersonal skills is the unshirkable responsibility for the preschool teachers. This study adopted the methods of social network analysis to analyze the in- terpersonal relationship in a middle class of a kindergarten in Tianquan county of Ya’an city. The results showed that: 1) from the perspective of centrality, three indicators (indegree, betweenness centrality and closeness centrality) were correlated with the subjective evaluation of the child- ren’s interpersonal skills by the teacher. However, because the different indicators reflect the dif-