Abstract
This study clarified the potential use of these images for learners by analyzing the content of the reflections of learners who watched caregiver perspective videos in a simulated childcare program in a childcare teacher training course. The results of the comparison between the caregiver's point of view video and the bird's eye view video showed that the learners tended to focus on the interaction between the caregiver and the child and the caregiver's responses in the caregiver's point of view video, while they focused on the overall flow of the caregiver's actions and activities in the bird's eye view video. This suggests that the relationship between the caregiver's point of view and the bird's eye view videos is complementary, and that viewing the caregiver's point of view videos, as opposed to the traditional bird's eye view videos, may be effective in promoting reflections that focus on the caregiver's relationship with the children and the caregiver's responses. This finding offers the prospect of addressing the problems of unequal learning opportunities and ensuring the quantity and quality of reflections in simulated child care by allowing learners to use caregiver perspective videos.
