生と死を考える試み : 保育者養成においてその2

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Many of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) students at Ryujo College will become educators of young children, who are in the process of learning that death is universal and inevitable. Last year the authors of this paper presented a series of trial educational sessions titled "Exploring life and death" to the ECE students. At the end of the sessions some changes in the students' views on life and death were noted. However, there were no indications that the students realized that they would be in a position to educate young children about life and death. Therefore, in addition to a questionnaire, group work and lectures given by bereaved persons, the authors programmed this year's sessions to include opportunities for the students to experience reading picture book about death to young children and to examine various picture books about life and death. The feedback from the students seems to suggest that this year's program enabled them to realize that in the future they would be in a position to educate young children about life and death. As the students explored death though the five sessions, they seemed to have come to realize how precious life is and they no longer expressed their fear about death. Thus, it may be said that the students were developing more mature views on life and death as a result of this year's sessions.
2005-12-20