Ecological Study of Spatiotemporal Constraints and Resources in Populated Environments for the Development of Daily Life Behaviors

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K14159
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 09030:Childhood and nursery/pre-school education-related
• Research Institution: Iwate University
• Principal Investigator: Aoyama Kei 岩手大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60736172)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: アフォーダンス / 発達システム / 発達カスケード / 社会的アフォーダンス / エンカウンター / 群生環境 / 日常生活行動 / 促進行為場

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to empirically elucidate the developmental constraints and resources of children's daily life behaviors from the perspective of populated environments , where daily life behaviors of others, overlapping spatiotemporally, are embedded and structured. Analysis of children's tidying up scenes and helping with household chores revealed that: (1) tidying up in living spaces is not only constrained by the characteristics of the 'objects' being tidied up, such as their color and shape, but also by the daily activities conducted around the places where the tidying up occurs, and (2) the development of children's daily life behaviors involves discovering new affordances through the process of newly exploring the same living spaces.

Free Research Field

発達科学、認知科学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

子どもたちは、他者とともに生活する場所で日常生活を送るための行動を身に着けていきます。例えば、リビングルームは、子どもたちの生活だけではなく、養育にかかわる大人の日常生活もできるように多かれ少なかれ整理されている必要があります。本研究では、子どもの日常生活行動の発達は、ただ日常生活のための行動が器用に上手くなるだけではなく、共に暮らす人々の事情も含みこむような条件下で、環境に支えられて生じている可能性が明らかになりました。