Toda Daiki

Childcare

・An empirical study on the use of language by current childcare workers and students aspiring to become childcare workers towards infants and young children
・Development of feedback-based childcare documentation teaching materials

We are conducting empirical research to formalize the tacit knowledge of skilled childcare workers regarding how they talk to infants and young children, that is, their knowledge and skills (interpretation, meaning, educational intent, etc.). The findings are incorporated into feedback-based childcare documentation teaching materials and are being used to improve the practical knowledge of students who wish to become childcare workers.

Since early childhood studies is essentially an academic field of interpretation and meaning, the way students who aspire to be childcare workers and current childcare workers relate to the childcare context is also diverse. However, there is a tendency in the tacit knowledge of experienced childcare workers that can be described as a certain intuition or trick, in other words, the truth of childcare. The joy of studying early childhood studies is to clarify this through empirical research and enjoy discovering new value there.

Completed doctoral program at the Graduate School of Child Studies, Seitoku University. Ph.D. (Child Studies)

Childcare studies is connected to all other academic fields, but at the same time, it can be said that it is a field with many unknown aspects because childcare practice itself is filled with diversity, uncertainty, and improvisation. Let's prove these unknown aspects through our own research and disseminate more reliable "childcare knowledge" to the local community.