2016 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 37-48
This study aims to explore how 3-year-old-kindergarten children intervene in others’ conflicts and change conflict situations, through observation of their activities.
Ten kinds of intervening actions were observed initially, and increased in the latter half of year. Toddlers seemed to recognize something about conflicts and how to resolve the situations through their nine actions, apart from “prevention”. Through actions of gazing”, “saying something”, “suggesting” and “controlling”, it was hard to change situations for them. Through “telling teachers what happened” and “explaining” children were able to change conflict situations indirectly, and directly through “warning”, “one-sided support” and “mediating”.
With teachers’ support, 3-year-old-toddlers participated in others’ conflicts,recognizing them to be solved, and had the potential to changing conflict situations.
