Comparison and Examination of the “1950 Curriculum” and “1957 Curriculum” Prepared by the Kindergarten Attached to the Shizuoka University Faculty of Education:

How did Childcare Practitioners Accept the Change from the “Hoiku Yoryo” to the “Yochien Kyoiku Yoryo”?

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to clarify the impact of the revision of Hoiku Yoryo (Childcare Guidelines) to Yochien Kyoiku Yoryo (Kindergarten Education Guidelines) by comparing two curriculums that were prepared by the Kindergarten attached to the Shizuoka University Faculty of Education in 1950 and 1957. The results revealed a gap between “understanding of the basic spirit of the guidelines” and the “creation of the curriculum according to the guidelines” in each curriculum’s creation.
Early childhood care and education teachers revised the curriculum based on their own practice according to the context of their times. These were born from the independent attitude of the early childhood education teachers who sought to express the uniqueness of that could not fit into the curriculum format of other school types.