Abstract
In this paper, firstly, we confirm that it is important for nursery school teachers to view children's formative expression from aesthetical and formative aspects. Secondly, through administering a questionnaire survey, we found that nursery school teachers' attention and confidence in judgement of the aforementioned aspects is low, compared to other aspects such as developmental, characteristic and psychological ones. We show that this is then related to the general involvement in arts (such as frequency of visits to art galleries, etc.) and the lack of enthusiasm to encourage children's formative expression. Lastly, we look at the issues and prospects for improving the ability to feel and to accept the beauty in children’s formative expression in the curriculum that trains nursery school teachers.
