The Reality Pattern and Practical Strategy of WeChat Group Enabling Home Co-breeding in the Digital Age
In the digital age,digital technology is infiltrating every aspect of life,and promoting the digitization of education has become an imperative of the times.As a widely used digital communication tool,WeChat groups play a significant role in facilitating communication between homes and kindergartens.This study employed observation and interview methods to conduct a thorough investigation into the reality pattern and teachers'experiences with the use of WeChat groups in nine kindergartens located in Beijing and Shandong provinces.The findings revealed that WeChat groups can effectively promote efficient interaction,emotional resonance,professional mutual trust,and consensus on goals between homes and kindergartens,thus playing a pivotal role in enabling the construction of a home-kindergarten practice community.However,due to issues such as blurred temporal and spatial boundaries,insufficient teachers'information literacy,absence of subjectivity on both sides,insufficient professional presentation of teachers,and the unidirectional dominance of teachers caused by traditional habits,the technological empowerment remains superficial and has not been transformed into deep intervention and linkage between homes and kindergartens.Consequently,this paper proposes specific practical strategies for leveraging WeChat groups to empower home-kindergarten collaborative education in the digital era.