Journal of Home Economics of Japan
Online ISSN : 1882-0352
Print ISSN : 0913-5227
ISSN-L : 0913-5227
How A Childcare Worker Senses Children’s Feelings Which They Can’t Express in Words
— An Analysis of A Childcare Worker’s Narratives Concerning their Experiences with Children with Special Needs —
Kazumi TASHIRO
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2018 Volume 69 Issue 7 Pages 515-525

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  The purpose of this study is to interpret applying a phenomenological approach towards how a childcare worker senses feelings which children with special needs cannot express in words. In order to do so, I listened to childcare worker's experiences in non-structured and interactive interviews which are used as part of phenomenological nursing research. I interpreted the circumstantial narrative of impressive experiences focused on the function of corporeality by using the phenomenological approach. As a result, the childcare worker and the child with special needs were on the same wavelength because the childcare worker sympathized with the corporeality of the child. So, the childcare worker sensed feelings the child could not express in words. While the childcare worker wasn't conscious of her corporeality, she sensed feelings the child with special needs could not express in words through the function of inter-corporeality.

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