A Research on How to Acquire Embodied Knowledge Required to Teacher to Support Children's Play

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K04494
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Tokyo City University
• Principal Investigator: Iwata Junko 東京都市大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (80269521)
• Research Collaborator: Ogawa Hirohisa
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 遊び保育 / 遊び集団 / 保育者 / 援助 / 俯瞰 / 幼児理解

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although play-centered early childhood education is institutionally recommended in Japan, it can not be said that it is successful for lack of a theory on teacher’s way of grasping of all children in her class, who are playing at each place in the kindergarten or childcare center. On the other hand ’Asobi Hoiku-ron’( Theory of Play-Centered Childhood Education) by Hirohisa Ogawa presents the way for a teacher of how to provide materials and construct their environment and support their activities to let them maintain it in order to grasp all of her children. A teacher skilled at this theory, who has acquired the embodied knowledge for expanding the theory, can understand the process of each play of all the groups of her class , their difficulties in them to understand each child, whereas an inexperienced teacher cannot. This study clarify theoretically and empirically difficulties and its cause of an inexperienced teacher’s practice.

Free Research Field

保育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

幼稚園教育要領では幼児一人一人を理解し、その特性に応じた援助をすることが求められているが、１クラス20～30人の子どもたち全員に担任教師（保育者）1人が責任を持たねばならないという制度的現実はこれまで考えられてこなかったため、観念論に終わっている。それに対して、小川博久の「遊び保育論」は、クラス全ての幼児一人一人についての理解と援助についての方法論を提起しており、一定の成果を挙げている。そのため、この論に習熟するための理論的、実証的研究は、幼児教育関係者が制度的現実の自覚化を促し、クラスの全ての子どもたちの遊びを充実したものにするための教師（保育者）養成に有意義である。