Development of a Scale to Measure a Practice of Team Childcare and Analysis of Factors Affecting Team Childcare

Abstract

  Team childcare, which is the theme of this research, is a childcare method in which one class is conducted by two or more childcare professionals, and in recent years this method has been adopted in many nursery schools and kindergartens.

  The previous researches clearly showed that there were no indicators that could objectively measure team childcare practice.

  Therefore this research developed a scale to measure a practice of team childcare and analyzed factors affecting team childcare.

  This scale consists of three factors: “1st factor: enhancement of communication”, “2nd factor: collaboration for effective childcare practice”, “3rd factor: implementation of reviewing for improvement”.

  Furthermore, based on the result of examining the relationship between this scale and the role of the childcare professionals, it became clear that the presence or absence of a change of roles, which is a difference in the role form of teachers, has an influence on the practice of team childcare.