Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the structure of difficulty in the class of 1-year-old children from the viewpoint of the nursery teachers. Twelve nursery teachers participated in the research interviews. As a result, it was found that the difficulty is constructed from three frameworks; the conditions of the characteristics of the daycare of 1-year-old children, the recognition of the point of daycare and its effective ways, and nursery teachers' thoughts regarding the daycare of 1-year-old children. From the analysis of the relation of the three frameworks, the nursery teachers are in "the dilemma of the intention to give high-quality daycare which is based on the characteristics of the daycare of 1-year-old children and difficulty with practice because of the structure of the daycare".
