Abstract

From 2016 to 2017, we changed the syllabus of "Horticultural therapy practice I ・ II". Those were one day experience at the day service center “SEIKO UDOKU SHYA” and support experiences of making turf dolls and pressed flower pictures at the elderly health care facility. Students learned that horticultural therapy was to spend happy time and to maintain and improve physical and mental functions under good communication through plants. A turf doll craft is to enjoy the growth of turf grass. There are many working steps and it is easy to evaluate the physical conditions of the clients. A craft of pressed flower by using dried living plants is an activity to evoke the creativity and the sensibility such as beauty, and to move the emotions.

Abstract

The questionnaire of classes by students is regarded as a representative of methods related to faculty development and is currently being implemented at any university. Although there are many universities that have been in existence for quite a few years, specific analytical methods and application methods have not been established for individual lessons.

We propose an effective evaluation method and effective application method that can analyze easily what is important of to the class from the questionnaire.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to prepare a questionnaire to clarify the "sense of whereabouts" of the elderly and to grasp the actual condition of "elderly people using the admission facilities". The method examined the definition and constituent elements of "sense of whereabouts" in the former research on whereabouts and opinions from experts. As a result, a questionnaire on whereabouts of five places (categories) and 25 items with content validity was created. As for grasping the actual condition, we conducted an interview with 18 elderly people in the facility using the questionnaire on whereabouts feeling. As to the actual situation, as a result of analyzing by comparing the total score, category, high and low group of the subjects to be surveyed, the "sense of whereabouts" of the entrance facility users is generally high in the physical place of presence, we find that there is a pattern such as a tendency to be low, an all high score type, an all low score type, and an intermediate type. Furthermore, it becames clear that there is a difference in each individual. As a result, we confirm that the questionnaire created in this research can be used as a questionnaire to measure "feeling of whereabouts" of elderly people.

Abstract

As an ICT society grows, kindergartens can do childcare practicing using personal computer and it is required to prepare teaching materials for new childcare. We selected “frimo3” from a number of software and examined its effects with the goal of being able to create effective teaching materials by making use of personal computers while raising the interest of children and taking the relationship with infant growth into consideration. It has many animation functions and we can operate along the time series, and it is also possible to control the screen using “action scripts”. We think that it is an effective tool for future childcare teaching material creation.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of observing simulated childcare on consciousness change of novice students in the nursery teacher training courses through the longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses.

First grade students were asked to respond to sixteen items constructing of simulated childcare concerning their own abilities to conceive and to perform. They were asked during three periods, before the observation, after the observation of expertise second grade students, and after the observations of first grade students. Results revealed that there was a main effect of the period, mean scores were significantly higher after the observation than before. Especially mean scores on items containing technical terms for childcare were significantly higher after the observation than before. And in such items there was a main effect of the grade, mean scores of second grade students were significantly higher than first grade students before the observation, and mean scores of second grade students were higher after the observations than before. These results suggest that observations of simulated childcare affect the consciousness changes in ability to conceive and to perform

Abstract

Now that it has become an information society, various information education equipments have been introduced and used at childcare and early childhood education sites. In this situation, information education is important in nurseries for nursery teachers and kindergartens.Therefore, We conducted a questionnaire on the use of information education equipment for the nursery teachers and the kindergarten teachers who worked on the field.

Based on the results, we design practical lessons and we reported them.