Early Childhood Education and Care During Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic in Japan

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10.2991/assehr.k.220602.033How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ecological System Theory; Covid-19; Educational Practice of Japanese Early Childhood Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the actual state of practice of early childhood education in Japan under the pandemic of the new coronavirus. In this paper, I focused on the practice of fostering the attitude of young children to “try to maintain keeping distance from others.” As a method, I classified the practices of early childhood education in Japan based on the four systems of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system theory. As a result, Japanese children are oriented to maintain the distance from governmental background, and kindergarten teachers have the actual experience of maintaining the distance by utilizing online, while children are having fun. It became clear that the educational environment was prepared to foster children’s attitude of “trying to maintain keeping distance from others” through their play.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ikuyo Wakayama
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/20
TI  - Early Childhood Education and Care During Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic in Japan
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Early Childhood Education (ICECE-6 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 160
EP  - 164
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220602.033
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220602.033
ID  - Wakayama2022
ER  -