Creating a glossary of affordances in early childhood education and care environment

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560393
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Childhood science (childhood environment science)
• Research Institution: Seirei Christopher University
• Principal Investigator: HOSODA Naoya 聖隷クリストファー大学, 社会福祉学部, 助教 (60622305)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SASAKI Masato 東京大学, 大学院・教育学研究科, 教授 (10134248) ; TAKAYAMA Shizuko 東洋大学, ライフデザイン学部, 准教授 (50509411)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 保育環境 / アフォーダンス / 環境構成 / 保育者の専門性 / 実践知 / 物的環境 / 人的環境

Outline of Final Research Achievements

1) Developed a list of elements required for design for childhood education and care environment with the cooperation of nursery teachers. 2) Analyzed the composition of affordances of places in childhood education and care environment, and implied the possibility of systematic classification of various places on the basis of its function.3) Verified the effectivity of some significant affordances in childhood education and care environment by　experiment and observation.

Free Research Field

教育学