著者
河合 隆平
出版者
幼児教育史学会
雑誌
幼児教育史研究 (ISSN:18815049)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.5, pp.1-16, 2010-11-30 (Released:2018-03-27)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the beginning of childcare practice for infants with disabilities in wartime through analyzing Komizo's mental process as a nursery school teacher as described in her practical reports. The following four issues were examined: (1) her perspective on childhood development and childcare, (2) ethics and morality of nursery school teachers, (3) how to recognize the mentality and situation of childcare through maternal narratives, and how to respond to them, and (4) how to give meaning to the practical issues of childcare and Komizo's practical experiences concerning National Values and Policy issues. Komizo's childcare practices grew out of Reflexive-relations which reflects the framework of childcare in response to infants. Her framework for childcare practices was not modified during wartime. Although, she developed her own identity and searched for the meaning of childcare for exceptional infants, she spontaneously internalized the Emperor ideology and consciousness of war mobilization, recognizing the linkage between childcare practices and nationalism.