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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
Izumi-Taylor, Satomi – Childhood Education, 2023
Japanese early childhood teachers use the "mimamoru" approach, in which teachers let children develop their sense of right and wrong in a group-oriented environment where they are accountable to others. Cultural in nature, the "mimamoru" approach is based on teachers' beliefs that children are truly autonomous beings who can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Problem Solving
Porter, Noriko; Tanabe, Keiko – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
The Japanese pedagogical strategy of mimamoru (watch and protect) has been identified by cross-culture researchers as an implicit component of early childhood education in Japan. However, little is known about the types of advice given by experts to parents regarding mimamoru. Accordingly, this study examined expert advice related to the mimamoru…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Periodicals, Child Rearing, Infants
Zhu, Yantong; Jiao, Dandan; Tanaka, Emiko; Tomisaki, Etsuko; Watanabe, Taeko; Sawada, Yuko; Li, Xiang; Zhu, Zhu; Ajmal, Ammara; Anme, Tokie – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Home-rearing environment (HRE) at an early age has a longitudinal effect on the development of children's self-control. Some evidence has articulated this relationship; however, few studies have addressed heterogeneous patterns in self-control. This study aimed to identify a typology of self-control among preschoolers and examine its relationship…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Environment, Self Control, Preschool Children
Eija Pakarinen; Kyoko Imai-Matsumura; Akie Yada; Takumi Yada; Anne Leppänen; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
This descriptive case study examined how teaching practices were evidenced in Grade 1 classrooms in two different cultural and educational contexts, Finland and Japan. Teachers' teaching practices were video-recorded in 53 classrooms in Finland and six classrooms in Japan and rated with the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure by trained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Akiko Kaizu; Munehisa Tamaki – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
This longitudinal study examined the effectiveness of a progress monitoring method, namely the Multilayer Instruction Model-Progress Monitoring (MIM-PM), which is a word reading fluency measure. It was used from 1st grade onward to predict the overall reading achievement of students in elementary school by tracking their reading achievement over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 4
