Empirical Research on the Application of Movement Education to Support for Children and Childrearing to Enhance Family Power.

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01776
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Childhood science (childhood environment science)
• Research Institution: Kamakura Women's University
• Principal Investigator: IIMURA Atsuko 鎌倉女子大学, 児童学部, 教授 (70326982)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 子育て支援 / ムーブメント教育 / 家族 / エンパワメント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Problems surrounding children are becoming more complex, such as an increase in mothers who have anxiety and worries in childrearing, a decrease in childcare skills and child abuse. While declining family power is pointed out due to the falling birthrate and the trend toward the nuclear family, there is an urgent need to develop childcare support that is directly linked to improving the empowerment of carers. In this study, we developed and applied a support for children and childrearing program by movement education to support infants and their mothers and verified the effect from the viewpoint of empowerment of mothers and childcare supporters. This enabled us to construct a method of parenting support by movement education.

Free Research Field

発達教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の特色は、子育て支援の具体的な方法として、遊びを原点とした発達教育としての「ムーブメント教育理論」にもとづいて、その方法論を提示し子育て家庭に還元できる点にある。子育て支援において何を提供するのか、その具体的な方法論が求められる現在、本研究で得られた研究結果は、子ども・子育て新制度に基づく地域子育て支援拠点事業等の質向上に寄与すると考える。