The exploration of the proposition of"transcending the best educational practices"in the course of high-quality development of early childhood education in the United States is key to comprehending the high-quality development of early childhood education in the United States and also holds significant referential significance for the high-quality development of early childhood education in China.The study adopts the methods of literature analysis and historical research to conduct in-depth studies on the realistic motivations,value orientations,and effective paths of transcending best educational practices ofearly childhood education in the United States.It is discovered that the value orientation upheld by the new trend of high-quality development of early childhood education in the United States is to shift from"deficits"to"differences",from"static"to"dynamic",from"substantive thinking"to"relational thinking"from"intellectual orientation"to"sociocultural orientation','and to pay greater attention to the in-depth development of"process quality".Guided by this value,the United States has implemented a series of effective paths of"transcending the best educational practices".All in all,the educational proposition and practice of"transcending the best educational practices"in the United States aim to reconstruct a relational,cultural,and process-oriented thinking based on evidence-based educational practices,offering a new possibility for the path to high-quality early childhood education.
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