保育環境構成における保育者の意識と環境構成の「難しさ」の検討

Examining the awareness of childcare workers concerning the challenges of creating an environmental structure in a childcare environment

表 夏子

七木田 敦

幼年教育研究年報

The Annual of research on early childhood

[ISSN] 0388-3078

[NCID] AN00246110

The purpose of this study is to explore the factors behind the challenges related to environmental configuration by clarifying how childcare workers perceive this process. Group interviews were conducted with childcare workers, and the resulting data were categorized and discussed. We determined that childcare workers’ awareness of environmental composition is as follows: (1) environmental structures aimed at emphasizing child-centeredness, (2) environmental structures aimed at childcare workers’ peace of mind, and (3) a belief that the process of configuring the environment is a team effort.
The factors contributing to the challenges of configuring the childcare environment are: (1) a lack of time and structural problems, (2) unique challenges depending on the children’s development, and (3) cooperation between childcare workers.
Although collaboration among childcare workers can be a source of difficulty, if the division of roles among them can proceed smoothly, the challenges of environmental configuration will be alleviated, and it will be easier to tackle the process. It was suggested that cooperation and collaboration among workers is a vitally important element of the environment-creation process.

childcare environment

creating an environmental structure

awareness of childcare workers

日本語

広島大学大学院人間社会科学研究科附属幼年教育研究施設

Research Institute of Early Childhood Education Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Hiroshima University

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