Developmental Study of Shoe-Wearing Behavior on the Terrace at Nursery School

Abstract

This study examined how children wear shoes at the nursery school terrace. The height of the terrace is 27cm. One-year-olds squeezed their heel into shoes with their foot in the air. Some 2-year-olds wore the shoes on the terrace after dropping their shoes to the ground and retrieving them. Three-year-olds quite often squeezed their heel into the shoes placed on the terrace. Some 4-and 5-year-olds wore the shoes after dropping them to the ground and then picking them up, and some others wore the shoes directly after dropping them to the ground. In both cases their foot grounded firmly on the terrace or on the ground. The development suggests the children's continuous effort of improvement in autonomous shoe wearing in everyday life.