Abstract
This study aimed to clarify the effectiveness of a day care by going to a nursery school for children under three years old from the perspective of nursery teachers, using the project in Prefecture A, which provides daycare services for children under the age of three that are similar to those given at nursery schools. The study conducted a group interview with nine nursery teachers and qualitatively analyzed their comments. The result revealed the effectiveness of the project for mothers in the following ways: Establishing contact with people and places outside their homes, learning about raising children, empowering them, and finding a new way to think. The effectiveness for children in terms of broadening their development is also demonstrated. Thus, the study shows that a day care by going to a nursery school for children under the age of three benefits both mothers and children. We should expand this type of daycare for pre-kindergarten children by reducing the burden of care and improving efficiency with the use of information and communications technology and robots in the future.
