Early Childhood Education Research Center

• The Center for Early Childhood Development, Education, and Policy Research（CEDEP）, Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo


• Institute for Education and Human Development, Ochanomizu University（in Japanese）


• Research Institute of Early Childhood Education, Graduate School of Education at the University of Hiroshima


• Doshisha University Center for Baby Science


• Tamagawa University Baby Laboratory（in Japanese）

• Japan Society of Research on Ealy Childhood Care and Education


• Japan Society of Development Psychology


• The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology（in Japanese）


• The Japanese Society for the Education of Young Children （in Japanese）


• The Japan Society for Child Study （in Japanese）


• International Association of Early Childhood Education


• The Japanese Society of Baby Science


• Japanese Society of Child Science


• Japanese Society for the Historical Studies of Early Childhood Education and Care （in Japanese）


• Japan Society of Education for ECEC Teachers （in Japanese）


• 全日本私立幼稚園幼児教育研究機構　幼児教育実践学会（in Japanese）

• National Institute of Special Needs Education


• National Association of Public Kindergarten and ECEC Center Principals （in Japanese）


• 全国国立大学附属学校連盟（in Japanese）


• National Research Association of Early Childhood Education （in Japanese）


• Japan Private Kindergartens Association （in Japanese）


• Early Childhood Care and Education Research Institution of the Japanese Private Kindergarten Federation（in Japanese）


• Japanese Federation Private Nursery Schools （in Japanese）


• National Council of Childcare,Japan National Council of Social Welfare　（in Japanese）


• The Japan Day Nursery Association（in Japanese）


• National Association of Day Nursery Teachers （in Japanese）


• National Association of Identified KODOMOEN （in Japanese）


• General Incorporated Association, Liaison Council of Certified Children's Gardens （in Japanese）


• 全国保育士養成協議会 （in Japanese）


• 幼少年教育研究所（in Japanese）

• EECERA（European Early Childhood Education Research Association）


• PECERA（Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association）


• NAEYC（National Association for the Education of Young Children）, U.S.A.


• ARNEC（Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood）


• SRCD （Society for Research in Child Development）


• ECEC Section of OECD（Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development）


• ECCE Section of UNESCO（United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization）


• UNICEF（United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund）Office of Research-Innocenti


• OMEP（Organisation Mondiale pour l’Education Préscolaire）


• ▶ The Japanese National Committee of OMEP（in Japanese）


• World Forum Foundations（WFF）

US：	NIEER（National Institute for Early Education Research)
	NICHD（National Institute of Child Health and Human Development）
Germany：	ICEC（The International Center Early Childhood Education and Care）
Korea：	KICCE（Korea Institute of Child Care and Education）
Singapore：	ECDA（Early Childhood Development Agency）

• National Curriculum Standards for Kindergartens（public notice: March 2017, effectice date: April 2018）（in Japanese）


• （former act）Course of study for Kindergarten（public notice: March 2008, effective date: April 2009）


• Improvement and Necessary Measures of the National Curriculum Standards for Kindergartens, Elementary Schools, Junior and Senior High Schools, and Schools for Special Needs Education（Report of the Central Council for Education No.197, 21 December 2016）（in Japanese）


• Improvement of Quality and Competence of Teachers who will bear the Future School Education: Building Communties to develop their Professionality（Report of the Central Council for Education, December 2015）（in Japanese）


• Early Childhood Education Working Group, Curriculum Committee, Central Council for Education（in Japanese）


• Central Council for Education（in Japanese）


• Special Committee to bridge Early Childhood Education and Elementary School Education（in Japanese）


• Survey on Actual Condition of Early Childhood Education（FY2007～2012, 2014, 2016）（in Japanese）


• A Collection of Exemplary Design of Kindergarten Facilities : Based on the Revisions to the Guidelines for Designing Kindergarten Facilities（FY2010）


• Elimination of Childcare Waiting Lists by Kindergartens（FY2016）（in Japanese）


• Guidelines for Exercise and Play in Early Childhood （in Japanese）


• Building a System for Promotiing Early Childhood Education and Care （in Japanese）


• Facilitating Early Childhood Education and Care（in Japanese）


• Improving Educational Function of Families　（in Japanese）

• Annual Health, Labour and Welfare Report 2017（Equal Employment and Child Welfare）


• About Children and Childrearing Measures


• About Promotion of Balancing Work and Family


• About the National Curriculum Standards for Nursery Centers（in Japanese）


• About Nursery Centers（in Japanese）


• Special working Group for Nursery Centers, Child Welfare Committee, Social Security Council　（in Japanese）

• Children and Families Agency


• こども基本法（in Japanese）

• National Curriculum Standards for Certified Integrated Centre for Early Childhood Education and Care（in Japanese）


• Comprehensive Support System for Children and Child-rearing （in Japanese）


• Office for Children and Child-rearing（Certified Centers for ECEC）（in Japanese）

• Hokkaido Early Childhood Education Promotion Center（in Japanese）


• Sapporo Preschool Education Center（in Japanese）


• Tochigi Prefecture Pre-School Education Center（in Japanese）


• Early Childhood Education Center, Gunma Prefectural Education Center（in Japanese）


• Shizuoka Prefecture Office of Early Childhood Education Advancement（in Japanese）


• Fukui prefecture child support center（in Japanese）


• Osaka City Nursery Child Care and Early Childhood Education Center（in Japanese）


• 京都府幼児教育センター（in Japanese）


• General Suport for Raising Child, Kyoto City Kodomomirai-kan（in Japanese）


• Hiroshima Prefecture Early childhood Education Support Center（in Japanese）


• Hiroshima City Education and Support Center for Early Childhood Caregivers


• Sasebo Municipal Center of Early Childhood Education and Care（in Japanese）


• Oita Prefecture Early Childhood Education Center（in Japanese）