精薄幼児保育の経験(第1報)

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Now in our country the great interest in the research of the mentally retarded is focused on the early education, being motivated by Kirk's work in his field. In our Otsuka School for the Mentally ret arded attached to Tokyo University of Education, the kindergarten classes for the mentally retarded were founded in 1960. So we have had six years experiences on this education. Young children enter this class at four years of age and are educated for two years. The curriculum of this education is constructed of three mains areas as follows: 1) free play 2) life unit plan 3) fundamental habit formation.The content of curriculum is tabulated in "The Experience Contents". Purpose: To explore the effectiveness of the early education for the mentally retarded. Method: Subjects are divided in two groups; Experimental group (6 persons, C.A. 6:5 (mean), I.Q. 67 (mean)) and Control Group (7 persons, C.A. 6:3 (mean), I.Q. 68 (mean)). Evaluation of effectiveness of this education was made by following three directions: 1) The Experience Content 2) Evaluation Reports from the parents and teachers 3) Evaluation School Book. Results: 1) The advances of the mental and the social development were more conspicuous in the experimental group than in the control group by each evaluation. 2) The advance was the most remarkable in "Life Experience" and then was next both "Health Experience" and "Felling Experience" to "Life Experience" . The advance of each aspect of Social Interest, Group Life and Varbal in "Life Experience" was especially conspicuous. 3) These advances take part in intelligence, that is, the high intelligence group reached to high level of the curriculum of life unit plan, but the low intelligence group was superior to the high intelligence group on the degree of advance by early education.