Present Situation in Multicultural Education in Day-care Center and Kindergarten, and Development of Guideline.

最近，居住在日本的外国人或不以日语为母语的人越来越多。她/他的孩子大多去日托中心或幼儿园。本研究旨在以多文化背景的父母为研究对象，探讨日本在养育子女方面存在的共性问题，为多文化教育的正确方法和方向以及对养育教育领域的理解提供指导。我们对居住在大阪和东京的人们进行了问卷调查，使用了11种不同语言的表格，并获得了2002人的回答。我们将调查问卷的数据进行汇总，用日语、英语、汉语、韩语等4种语言出版了近3年的《多元文化育儿研究报告》，以便将调查结果反馈给参与调查问卷的家长。该报告包含了日本育儿的各种问题和建议，以及日托中心或幼儿园的育儿政策，或县政府的育儿政策，现已被广泛用作各领域的参考。我们还制定了一项题为“多元文化育儿问答”的指导方针。该指南描述了如何应对具有多元文化背景的孩子或父母，也包含了多元文化教育和理解的适当概念，也被广泛使用。

Recently the numbers of foreign people living in Japan or people who do not speak Japanese as a mother language are increasing. Most of her/his children go to day-care center or kindergarten. The aim of this research is to focus on the parent whose background is multi-cultural one and explore the common problem with respects to child-rearing in Japan, in addition to make guidelines for the proper method and direction for the multi-cultural education and understanding in the field of child-rearing education.We conducted the questionnaires for the people who live in Osaka and Tokyo using sheets translated into 11 different languages and obtained the response from 2,002 people. We summarized the data of the questionnaires and published the report as "Multi-cultural Child-rearing Research Report" last 3 years in 4 different languages such as Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean in order to feed back the results to the parents who responded to the questionnaire. This report includes various questions and proposals for the child-rearing in Japan and child-rearing policy in the day-care center or kindergarten, or policy for the child rearing in the prefecture government, and has been now widely used as the reference in each field.We also developed a guideline entitled "Q and A for the multi-cultural child-rearing". This guideline describes how to respond children or parents with multi-cultural background, and also include the proper concept for the multi-cultural education and understanding, and is also widely used.