2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study on the infant's feeding action in the nursery activity.
| Project/Area Number |
16500501
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Eating habits, studies on eating habits
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| Research Institution | HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
ISHIGURO Hiroaki Hokkaido Univ., Grad.School of Education, Associate Professor, 大学院・教育学研究科, 助教授 (00232281)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | caring / feeding action / adult's intervention / field research / nursery school |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this study is to investigate the developmental transition of infant's feeding action in the day care center. It is the main task to analyze the social resources or the surrounding environment for the feeding infants. There are two goals in this study. One goal of this study is to clarify the developmental transition for the feeding infant under their specific environment such as the local day care center. There are big differences between home and day care centers. For example, one nursery teacher supports some children simultaneously at the lunch time there. A mother or a father usually supports only one child in the home. It is important to define what the social resources to help the infants' feeding action are in the day care center and how the nursery teachers want to support their children's feeding action at the lunch time. To clarify the way to support the feeding infants is the second goal of the study. Data analysis on zero and one-year-old-infants was done in the
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first year of the study project. I gathered zero-year and one-year infants' data which includes field notes and video tapes in the preliminary investigation held in the previous year. They have been investigated under this study in the first year. In the second year of the study project, the data for two-year-old infants are analyzed. The general discussion was done on the infants' feeding action and the nursery teacher's interventional or supportive action for them during the first two years of infants.
The results indicate that the goal of nursery teachers were to promote infants' intention to eat by themselves rather than their nutritional achievement. The nursery teachers changed the food condition in front of infants. For example, when the infant could not grasp the big bread, the nursery teachers break it into small pieces and set them in the front table for the infant. The teacher's indirect support functioned as the guidance for infants as the way which was expected by the teacher. For example, when the infant did not eat one food, the teacher moved it in the front of the infant. The nursery teachers modified a table arrangement for infants.
The modification was based on their estimation of the infant's feeding ability and their expectance for the infants' action. The teachers' support functioned as the device to orient children to their expected action as well as the device which promotes child's intention to eat by him/her-self. Less
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Research Products
(4 results)
