Abstract

    This report focused on evaluating the current research and interest in infant study in educational psychology.  In this report, relevant papers presented in The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology published in 2011 and the proceedings of the 53rd annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology were selected.  Current interests for infant development detected in the Educational Psychology area are mainly focused on cognition, emotion, and motor development.  The nurturing skills of parents and the education tracks of students for kindergarten teachers are also two major associated fields related to infant study.  The importance of a global understanding in these fields is discussed in this paper.