Issues of Health Education in Early Childhood and Formation of Young Children's Body Image

Abstract

本論は,幼児期の健康教育の課題を明らかにすると共に,幼児の身体像の形成が教育的効果を生むことの可能性について検討するものである。健康教育は,「健康や自分の身体への興味関心」「習慣形成等の実践力」「科学的な正しい知識」を並行して育成することが効果的であると考える。発達過程によって重心を置く項目が異なるが,「健康や自分の身体への興味関心」については,幼児教育から中学校教育まで一貫して重要であると考えられる。それには,各発達過程や学校の教育形態の特色を生かした教材の開発が求められる。例えば,幼児期の健康教育においては,自分の身体像や身体感覚を表出する保育教材が想定できる。This paper discusses the issues of health education in childhood and examines the possibility that the formation of the body image of young children can bring an educational effect.We believe that health education would be effective by developing "interest in health and one's own body," "practical skills for habit formation" and "scientifically right knowledge" at the same time. Although which item we should focus on is depending on the developmental process, "interest in health and one's own body" is considered to be consistently important from education in early childhood to education in junior high school. This requires the development of teaching materials that take advantage of the characteristics of each developmental process and school educational format. For example, for the health education in early childhood, we can assume materials that express their own body image and sensation

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