学童保育と「子どもの遊び」に関する一考察

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In order for working parents to raise children, afterschool care is necessary for school children. The history of children's afterschool care is very recent in Japan. There are a lot of problems for working parents, to solve them, we should approach the problem from the aspects of both, quantity and quality. Concretely, we need relevant facilities, time, money, and leaders for day care. In this paper, we investigated the play of children in afterschool care facilities from the viewpoint of teaching health education. We analyzed three cities, X, Y and Z. The history of afterschool care is comparatively old in X. Y and Z are bedroom communities of X. By comparing actual conditions of children's afterschool care in these three cities, we tried to show that play is desirable. As a result, children had plenty of active play on sunny and rainy days in afterschool care facilities in Y and Z. They could play on a playground on sunny days and in a gymnasium on rainy days in Z city and they could play in a playground on sunny days in Y city. They could not use a secure play area any day in X. We show the necessity to have play areas for plenty of active play in afterschool care. We have to organize a lot of it. It would be a partial solution to the decline in children's population.
2006-06-20