The Environmental Education in the Kindergarten and Nursery School which Mainly Takes "Child Care Close to Nature"

幼儿期环境教育的实质是培养儿童的原则，包括价值观，并培养与自然的情感联系，幼儿园发挥着核心作用。特殊幼儿园教育不一定要采用环境教育理念，而是通过有意识地、反复地将“幼儿环境”活动（如散步、玩植物、照顾动物、耕作、玩游戏）融入日常幼儿教育中，就可以达到这一目标。通过教导婴儿生命周期、自然界的循环、生态及其特征、生物与人类之间的关系、多样性、生命的重要性以及季节和现象的变化，我们可以提高儿童的意识，并有助于培养好奇心和好奇心。在开发新的项目时，重要的是创建那些可以适用于各种情况的项目，并将日本自然和传统文化融入到项目中。此外，重要的是，幼儿园教育作为一个整体，使“儿童保育实现可持续的社会”，这仍然是一个突出的挑战，教育工作者。从目前的自然环境调查结果可以看出，有必要开展活动，如利用该地区的气候和自然环境的散步。此外，根据“成长力评价标准”中的实证研究，指出了“亲近自然的幼儿保育”，特别是幼儿园和托儿所的集体教育的重要性。虽然育儿教育计划有系统性、时间性和身体性的限制，但有必要提高对自然的兴趣，促进对自然意义的理解，并通过植物和动物与自然进行实际体验。

The essence of environmental education during infancy is to foster principles, including a sense of value, in the child, and to nurture an emotional connection to nature with the nursery school playing a central role. Special nursery school education is not required to adopt environmental education ideals, but rather, through consciously and repetitively incorporating "Environment in Early Childhood" activities (such as taking walks, playing with vegetation, caring for animals, cultivating, and playing games) into daily nursery education, such goals can be attained. Through teaching infants about life cycles, the circulation of the natural world, ecology and it' s characteristics, the relationships between organisms and humans, diversity, the importance of life, and changes in seasons and phenomena, we can raise awareness in the child and help to foster curiosity and an inquisitive mind. When developing new programs, it is important to create those that can be applied to various situations, and to incorporate into the programs aspects of Japanese nature and traditional culture. In addition, it is important that nursery school education as a whole be one that enables "child care to achieve a sustainable society", and this remains a luminous challenge for educators. From the current results of the Nature Environmental Survey, the necessity for activities, such as talking walks, which utilize the region' s climate and natural environment was seen. Moreover, according to the empirical research seen in the "Rating Standard on the Power of Growing Up", the significance of "Child Care Close to Nature", especially in group education at kindergartens and nursery schools was pointed out. Although with childcare education programs, there are systemic, time related, and physical limitations, it is necessary to heighten interest in nature, promote understanding of it' s significance, and allow for actual experiences with nature through plants and animals.