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Direct linkZhu, Zhu; Tanaka, Emiko; Tomisaki, Etsuko; Watanabe, Taeko; Sawada, Yuko; Li, Xiang; Jiao, Dandan; Ajmal, Ammara; Matsumoto, Munenori; Zhu, Yantong; Anme, Tokie – School Psychology International, 2022
Self-care ability and social skills are potential areas of difficulty for preschool children. However, values about young children's self-care ability are different worldwide. This longitudinal study examined the influence of early self-care ability on social skills at the end of the preschool years. Participants were 509 children recruited from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Daily Living Skills
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
Test, Joan – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
It is not only in families that young children are influenced to become members of their culture. Around the world and within individual countries, culture influences how care is provided to infants and toddlers in child care settings. In turn, infants and toddlers begin to learn how to act and think as members of their culture. From ways that…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Cultural Influences
Download full textTobin, Joseph – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2014
Most qualitative studies in international education take place in a single site in a single nation. When studies are of more than one country, they most often use more quantitative than qualitative approaches. Beatrice and John Whiting conducted the most systematic of comparative cross-cultural studies of child rearing in their "Six…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Video Technology, International Education
Uno, Kathleen – History of Education Quarterly, 2009
Research on the history of children and childhood in modern Japan (1868-1945) reveals that issues related to civil society, state, and the establishment of institutions for young children can be explored beyond the transatlantic world. In this essay, after briefly surveying historiography, a few basic terms, and earlier patterns of state and…
Descriptors: Historiography, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Tobin, Joseph; Karasawa, Mayumi; Hsueh, Yeh – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
In this article the reflections of the teachers and directors of Komatsudani Hoikuen ("day-care center") on a video the authors recently made at their preschool are used to explore processes of continuity and change in Japanese preschool education over the course of a generation. The social changes that are associated with changing…
Descriptors: Preschool Evaluation, Preschool Education, Educational Change, Reflection
