2023 Volume 74 Issue 7 Pages 363-377
This study examined the interpersonal experience between junior high school students and young children, by analyzing the interpersonal feelings of the former, who interact continuously with the same young children over a period. The practice has the following three characteristics. First, it is a continuous experience of being in contact with the same child for a year. Second, it incorporates the process of junior high school pupils “teaching” young children. Third, it is a contact experience, at the core of which is the home economics class, which is interlocked with school events, etc. For each of these features, the suggestion that the practice was an “interacting experience” was examined from students' feelings toward young children. As the result, it can be presumed that one of the reasons why students are not able to engage well with and respond to young children is their lack of understanding of characteristics of early childhood.
