Multiple Perspectives of the Participant Observer : Toward a Thick Description of Child Rearing at Nursery Schools.

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  • ISHINO Hideaki
    Department of Infant and Early Childhood Education,Hyogo University of Teacher Education

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  • 関与観察者の多様な存在のありよう : 保育の場での子どもの「育ち」を捉える可能性を探り当てる試み
  • カンヨ カンサツシャ ノ タヨウ ナ ソンザイ ノ アリ ヨウ ホイク ノ バ デ ノ コドモ ノ ソダチ オ トラエル カノウセイ オ サグリアテル ココロミ

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The methodology of participant observation, more than most other scientific approaches, requires a researcher to describe and discuss her/his own involvement in the field, because the method has to be customized for each unique research setting. This article analyzed a researcher's approach at a nursery school, and discuss how the field observer grasped the processes of children's growth. The analysis showed first that the (Children-caregivers-observer) relationship determined the researcher's way of being. Second, the participant observer took many role perspectives in the field, as conceptualized on a continuum from insider to outsider. Third, based on these perspectives, the researcher assigned meanings to phenomena for the members at the nursery school, and observed children's developmental processes in a valid manner. Finally, this paper made suggestions about methodological issues for future participant-observational studies in terms of the relationship between researcher and members, within the larger context of the field.

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