Physical Expression Teaching Methods to Enhance Empathetic Interactions with Children

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K02602
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09030:Childhood and nursery/pre-school education-related
• Research Institution: Mukogawa Women's University
• Principal Investigator: ENDO Aki 武庫川女子大学, 教育学部, 教授 (30353006)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 久米 裕紀子 武庫川女子大学短期大学部, 幼児教育学科, 講師 (60779205)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 幼児 / 共感的相互作用 / 身体表現遊び / 指導法 / 「気づき」と「対応」

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to confirm whether young kindergarten teachers can improve their teaching skills by learning specific “awareness and response” techniques from their experienced counterparts.This was achieved by:(1) Developing a method of recording the teacher's gaze during physical expression teaching　(2) Examining the “awareness and response” of the teachers while teaching physical expression　(3) Examining the differences between the perspectives of the student teachers and their experienced counterparts
It was found that the teachers paid attention to the bodily movements and facial expressions of the children during physical expression, striving to notice their feelings and their interactions with other children, and that they anticipated development and change in subsequent relevant play and expected one child's expression to influence those of the other children.

Free Research Field

子ども学および保育学関連

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

今回の研究では実際にどこを見て何に気づくことが大事なのか、そしてどのように対応するのがよいか、身体表現の遊びに求められる保育者の気づきを可視化する。身体表現遊びの具体的な指導法の研究という点から本研究は非常に大きな意義がある。幼児理解・対応についての具体的記録は、幼児の身体表現活動の指導において保育者として幼児の遊び理解のポイントや保育者としての指導の内容を動画再生によって学べる保育学生向けの保育指導の教材の研究にも関連し、保育者養成においても重要な研究になる。