Educational Assignments concerning Experience in Early Childhood Education and Care in Junior and Senior High School Home Economics

Abstract

This research was aimed to clarify the educational assignments concerning Experience in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Home Economics. The questionnaire survey involved two parties: senders and recipients i.e., the home economic teachers who took their students to kindergarten and day nursery to play with children, and the preschool teachers at those facilities. It was found that both junior and senior high school home economics teachers had faced many difficulties in practicing ECEC. Actually due to the curriculum's restrictive boundaries, ECEC was not fully carried out in senior high school. Though the preschool teachers indicated some problems in the students' number and ECEC's form, they were able to evaluate the effectiveness of developing junior and senior high school students' readiness for parenting in ECEC and most of them had positive attitudes towards ECEC. In conclusion, both the senders and the recipients of ECEC should endeavor to strengthen and create more ties in order to enhance the educational effectiveness of ECEC.