The Lived Experiences of Preschool Children Ages 3–4: The Practices of Independence in the Case Some Pre School in Vietnam

Abstract

Independence helps children to always be confident and to control themselves in activities and communication. Education for independence is an urgent issue for education systems around the world to meet the requirements of society in the current context, one side it represented the developments of the education system and the other is it shows the developments of the early ages of the generation of a nation. By means of observation measured by the 5-point Likert scale, by the observers are lecturers and staff of the National College for Education this study was conducted in suburban and inner-city schools of both public and non-public types on the independence of 3–4-year-olds whose ages from 36 to 48 months the data then was collected and proceed by SPSS. The results show that children's independence is quite good, with a five-point scale in all independent expressions. However, there is a need for more in-depth additional studies for each type of school or further identification of the influencing factors for children's independence at this age.