保育者養成における「生命」教育への一考察

―貝割大根の栽培・観察の効果―

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This study was intended to confirm by means of a questionnaire how the plant cultivation as a part of “life” education influenced the educational activities of kindergarten teachers. Kaiware-daikon, the seedling stage of the radish, was used as a teaching material for the “life” education. Subjects of the questionnaire were kindergarten teachers: twenty-eight of them had experienced plant cultivation at school; thirty had also experienced it, not at school, but in the in-service training; and twenty-seven had not experienced it at all.

The results obtained from the questionnaire indicate that 1) the experience of plant cultivation at school or in the in-service training has the effect of motivating kindergarten teachers to introduce it into their education activities; 2) as teaching materials, flowering plants have frequently been used in nursery school activity, but new teaching materials such as Kaiware-daikon should be explored.