A Description of the Learning Process through Four Years at a Nursery School and Kindergarten Teachers' Training Course:

How Did Students Learn to be Narrators about Episodes

Abstract

This study described learning processes until the students became narrators of episodes through four years at a nursery school and kindergarten teacher training course. In study one, four fourth-year university students talked about episodes concerning early childhood care and education. Findings are as follows: 1) In the first year, they learned the episodes from university teachers; 2) In the second year, they felt it difficult to find episodes while watching children at nursery school and kindergarten; 3) In the third year, they began to understand how they should capture episodes; 4) In the fourth year, they became narrators about episodes by professional points of view. These results are supported by reviewing the portfolios of the students and questionnaires about episodes for 270 students in Study two.