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Our early childhood people are yet to be certain that children should be differently treated by their age difference and individual difference, which underlies the idea of child-study developmentalism. Among the tenets, the significance of individual difference is rooted from the social efficiency movement led the educational discourse in the 1910s and 1920s. The efficiency scientifically measured attacked the identity of kindergarten. They asserted that the kindergarten curriculum was overlapped with the frist grade curriculum. The social efficiency advocates strongly criticized the idea of developmentalism, which stressed the importance of organizing the curriculum according to children's natural development. For them, the children's development was not accountable and sequential to measure the efficiency of kindergarten education in relation with the frist grade in primary school. The social efficiency movement advocates challenged the identity of kindergarten and criticized the waste in school system. To maintain the identity of kindergarten, the developmental kindergartners interpreted their tenet as individual difference according to mental ability which was core ideas of social efficiency and scientific measurement. The kindergarten was distinguished from the first grade and changed its curriculum.

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