2022 Volume 60 Issue 1 Pages 21-32
This study aimed to clarify the beliefs and practical knowledge of childcare workers about their practice through visual narraive analysis of image-drawing. Belief images drawn by 29 childcare workers were analyzed to obtain their beliefs related to childcare practices. The results revealed the following three characteristics typical to their belief images drawn by childcare workers: (1) being at the same eye level as children, (2) accepting diversity, and (3) maintaining a protective stance of watching over children. Our visual narrative analysis of belief image drawn by childcare workers enabled us to gain insight into their beliefs about their occupation.
