Meet the Ideal Childhood Education: Book Review of The Beginning of Individual Growth: A Philosophical Interpretation of Childhood Education

Using life narrative method, genetic method and method of analytical philosophy, the book The Beginning of Individual Growth:A Philosophical Interpretation of Childhood Education interprets ideas of childhood education on individual growth. The book focuses on and interprets issues such as stages of children's development, implication of childhood education, the soul of childhood education, the unfolding of children's life and the possibilities of childhood education, the starting point and the center of the work of childhood education, the key qualities of childhood education, adaptation and transcendence of childhood education, and the complexity of caring children's life growth. It has developed a self-explanatory and systematic view of philosophy of childhood education on individual growth of early childhood. The book sees children as a holistic and developmental being in its natural, living and human existence. It argues that the ideal childhood education is a "positive childhood education" directed towards the development of children and an "education of integration of love and beauty". The ideal beginning of childhood education is an education in the good life of the individual child towards the good life of human being.