子どもの遊びにおけるジェンダー・ディスコースの錯綜 : 幼児の「家族ごっこ」の分析より

The Complexity in Gender Discourses within Children's Play : An Analysis of the Preschool Children's "Family" Pretend Play

Fujita Yumiko

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第三部, 教育人間科学関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 3, Education and human science

The purpose of this article is to examine the complexity of gender discourses within children's play, analyzing preschool children's "family" pretend play. Formerly I suggested that children actively participate in their own gender identity formation, against the assumptions of "internalization" and "gender dichotomy". In this paper, I examine the dynamics of gender practices to find the complexities and pluralities of the gender discourses in preschool children's "family" pretend play. Observations were conducted at a kindergarten in Chugoku district. Research observations with kindergarten children were conducted from September 2005 to March 2006, with note-taking and digital video recording. During six days (5 hour and 12 minutes free play time), 5 "family" pretend play episodes (1 hour and 53 minutes) could be intensively observed and recorded. In each episode transcriptions were made and interpretational analysis was conducted. The findings were as follows. Firstly, children's typical "family" members are a mother, an elder daughter, a baby (girl or boy) and a cat or a dog, occasionally a father or sons joined. Secondly, the mother usually takes care of her family members, so she has power in the family. Thirdly, the detailed analysis of one episode demonstrates that there are several gender discourses related to the episode: the mother's care and the heroes' fight. Fourthly, each member struggled for a comfortable environment in their play, according to their gender. These findings were assessed in terms of the children's performativity and agency, their gender identity formation, and their play as "power play".

gender discourse

preschool

"family" pretend play

complexity

agency

ジェンダー・ディスコース

幼児

家族ごっこ

錯綜

主体性

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5562

[NCID] AA11625039