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Direct linkRyutaro Nishi – Childhood Education, 2024
Sozo Kurahashi's (1882-1955) theories, formed from his profound respect for children, have influenced Japanese early childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners for a long time. They also have influenced the national ECEC curriculum in Japan, which emphasizes the need for a rich environment where children can actively learn and play rather…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
Senzaki, Sawa; Shimizu, Yuki – Child Development, 2022
Social contexts shape the development of attention; however, little is known about joint attention beyond infancy. This study employed behavioral and eye-tracking measurements to investigate cultural variations in how caregivers direct 3- to 4-year-old children's attention and subsequent changes in children's attention to objects and contextual…
Descriptors: Interaction, Child Behavior, Cultural Differences, Eye Movements
Sugita, Hirotaka – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This paper re-envisions the personhood of severely disabled children, who are often excluded from the category of human beings in the academic literature due to their perceived lack of mental faculties, based on Japanese philosopher Watsuji Tetsuro's concept of human beings ("ningen"). It begins with Carl Elliott's claim that personhood…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Western Civilization, Criticism
Matsui, Gota – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
Using action research, this study examined the professional development of teachers through the reflections that kindergarten teachers obtain from children's voices and the relevance between the working environment and teachers' reflection at teacher conferences in Japan. Four teachers participated in the study. Data sources included teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Young Children, Childrens Attitudes
Toyama, Noriko – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
This longitudinal study aimed to investigate infants' spontaneous object interactions during naturalistic longitudinal observations in a day care centre in Japan. Infants' and caregivers' interactions during free play time were videotaped. The main focus related to how infants' object interactions changed during locomotor development. Observations…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Child Care Centers, Video Technology
Ang, Lynn; Tabu, Mikiko – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2018
Home-based child care or childminding as it is commonly known in the United Kingdom (UK) is a service often used by parents and families in many countries. However, despite its prevalence, there is a paucity of research on the subject. Addressing this gap, this study presents new empirical data to better understand this type of provision in…
Descriptors: Child Care, Family Environment, Cross Cultural Studies, Caregiver Child Relationship
Ishiguro, Hiroaki – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
This research is a longitudinal, ethnographic study that focuses on mealtimes with one boy from 9 to 78 months of age in a day-care center in Japan. It looks at routine interactions between a child, his nursery teachers, and the environment, which is a shared and mutually available communicative space between participants in collaboration. The aim…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
Posada, German; Lu, Ting; Trumbell, Jill; Kaloustian, Garene; Trudel, Marcel; Plata, Sandra J.; Peña, Paola P.; Perez, Jennifer; Tereno, Susana; Dugravier, Romain; Coppola, Gabrielle; Constantini, Alessandro; Cassibba, Rosalinda; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Nóblega, Magaly; Haya, Ines M.; Pedraglio, Claudia; Verissimo, Manuela; Santos, Antonio J.; Monteiro, Ligia; Lay, Keng-Ling – Child Development, 2013
The evolutionary rationale offered by Bowlby implies that secure base relationships are common in child-caregiver dyads and thus, child secure behavior observable across diverse social contexts and cultures. This study offers a test of the universality hypothesis. Trained observers in nine countries used the Attachment Q-set to describe the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Child Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
Garcia Quiroga, Manuela; Hamilton-Giachritsis, Catherine – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: A large number of children are currently living in Alternative Care. The relationship they establish with their temporary caregivers can play a significant role in their development. However, little has been published regarding attachment with temporary Caregivers. Objective: The aim of this review is to analyse the existing published…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Children, Child Care Centers, Group Homes
Bamba, Sachiko – Social Work, 2010
This article describes the experiences and perspectives of child welfare workers and maltreated children living in Japanese state care. Japanese adults emphasize supporting children's emotional well-being and empowerment through developmentally and ecologically focused socialization strategies. One developmental goal articulated by caregivers of…
Descriptors: Socialization, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Social Work
Download full textIkeda, Yumi; Masataka, Nobuo – 1997
This study examined the speech behavior of Japanese women when interacting with young children. Sixty-one single Japanese-speaking women, ages 18-26, were recorded as they read aloud picture books to a 1-year-old child and as they conversed with another Japanese-speaking adult woman. When their utterances were acoustically compared between the two…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Speech, Family Size, Females
Rothbaum, Fred; Weisz, John; Pott, Martha; Miyake, Kazuo; Morelli, Gilda – American Psychologist, 2000
Highlights evidence of cultural variations in child attachment, noting how western values and meanings permeate attachment theory. Comparisons of the United States and Japan emphasize the cultural relativity of three core hypotheses of attachment theory related to: caregiver sensitivity, child social competence, and a secure base for exploring the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Children, Cultural Differences
Wakai, Kunio, Ed.; Chen, Shing-Jen, Ed.; Furutsuka, Takashi, Ed.; Shirotani, Yukari, Ed. – 1997
This annual report discusses several topics related to the work of the Research and Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Japan. The articles are: (1) "Heart to Heart (Inter "Jo") Resonance: Taking Japanese Concept of Intersubjectivity Out of Everyday Life" (Shigeru Nakano); (2) "Intersubjectivity…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development, Child Rearing
