Relationship between Noticing Experience in Childcare Practice and Childcare Workers' Efficacy

Abstract

In this study, the relationship between the noticing experience of the autobiographical memory of childcare workers and their efficacy was analyzed. The difference in years of experience was considered. First, the childcare workers’ attitude; the children’s psychological state and conduct; the relationship between parents, guardians, and childcare workers; and the childcare environment when a noticing experience of a childcare worker occurred were put into order based on Yoshida et al. (2015) categories. Next, the influence of childcare experience and the presence of a noticing experience of a childcare worker on their efficacy was considered. It was found that as a childcare worker accumulates childcare experience, their efficacy increases. The efficacy of the childcare workers with noticing experience as autobiographical memory was greater than the efficacy of the childcare workers who did not have such experience. On the other hand, a difference in the childcare workers’ efficacy according to the contents of a noticing experience was not found. Finally, the results of this study are discussed and future problems are described.