2021 Volume 59 Issue 1 Pages 7-20
This study aimed to clarify research activities that formulated a plan to establish a course unit, “A New Kindergarten Home,” conducted by the Tokushima University affiliated Kindergarten in 1954 with reference to the related documents of the time. The following three steps were identified through the study. First, a survey was conducted focusing on the life experience of children. Second, based on the survey results, desirable abilities for five-year-old children were identified and refined curriculum content . Third, a “Table of Abilities of Five-Year-Old Children” was created by organizing these desirable abilities according to the children’s life experience and growth level in order to establish organized and systematic curriculum content in this kindergarten .This unit was planned to encourage children to acquire desirable abilities in an organized and systematic manner under the environment provided by a new kindergarten building along with play newly prepared based on children’s daily life.
