language development Children with Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Family Support Early Childhood Educaiton and Care Multicultural Educaiton Immigrant Children Interpersonal Recognition Teacher Education Inclusion Multicultural Community Building Comparative Education Early Childhood Care and Education
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences / Special needs education
Humanities & social sciences / Education - general
Humanities & social sciences / Early childhood education and childcare
Humanities & social sciences / Educational psychology
Academic & Professional Experience
2023/04 - Today Toyo UniversityDepartment of Child Studies, Faculty of Design for Welfare Society教授
2018/04 - Today Toyo University Graduate School of Human Life DesignMaster Course of Human Care and Support, Ph.D. Course of Human Life StudiesProfessor
2017/04 - 2023/03 Kyoei UniversityFaculty of Education非常勤講師
2017/04 - 2023/03 Toyo UniversityFaculty of Human Life DesignProfessor
2016/04 - 2017/03 Kyoei UniversityFaculty of EducationProfessor
2012/04 - 2016/03 Kyoei UniversityCollege of EducationAssociate Professor
2009/04 - 2012/03 Aichi Shukutoku UniversityFaculty of Education非常勤講師
2010/04 - 2011/09 Chubu UniversityCollege of Contemporary Education Department of Early Childhood Education非常勤講師
2005/08 - 2007/06 Ohio UniversityCollege of Health & Human Services, School of Human & Consumer SciencesAssistant Professor
2002/09 - 2005/06 The Ohio State UniversityTeaching Assistant
2001/06 - 2003/08 The Ohio State UniversityResearch Assistant
Education
2001/09 - 2005/08 The Ohio State University, Graduate School College of Education School of Teaching & Learning
1999/06 - 2001/09 The Ohio State University, Graduate School College of Human Ecology Department of Human Development and Familiy Sciences
1983/04 - 1987/03 Nagoya University College of Education Department of Educational Psychology
Association Memberships
International Association of Early Childhood Education National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Education (社)保育教諭養成課程研究会 THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY ON TEACHER EDUCATION THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN JAPAN SOCIETY OF RESEARCH ON EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION American Educatiional Research Association National Association of Education for Young Children Japan Society of Developmental Psychology Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Uchida, Chiharu; Koga, Matsuka; Muto, Takashi (Joint workChapter 19 Initiatives in Japan to Enhance Common Understandings of the High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care)Springer Nature 2025/05 9789819627462 270 257-267
Wendy Boyd, Editor; Susanne Garvis, Editor; Chiharu Uchida (ContributorCurrent Trends and challenges for Early Childhood Teacher Education in Japan)Springer 2021/10 267 111-130
International Comparisons of Early Childhood Education and Care: OECD Talis Starting Strong 2018 Survey Repot 2 -Improving Workforce and Professionalism
National institute; for Educational; Policy Research (ContributorChapter 4 Leadership and Administrative Management in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings)明石書店 2021/09 9784750352503
National institute; for Educational; Policy Research (ContributorChapter 4 The Environment of ECEC Settings and Structural Quality)明石書店 2020/02 4750349208 400 130-173
Rethinking the image of the child and DAP in peer relationships: Insights from a visual ethnography of children collaborating to pursue their own goals [Not invited]
How immigrant parents have access to maternal and child health support in Japan -Case studies through voices of parents and community Supporters [Not invited]
Chiharu Uchida
Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association Annual Conference, Bali 2023/07 Oral presentation
The 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Early Childhood Education 2021/09
Learning from a community-based support program for young dual language learners and their families: Implications for ECEC teacher education in Japan [Not invited]
Chiharu Uchida
2021 Annual Conference of Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Conference 2021/07 Oral presentation
Why "responsiveness" to different cultures are critical for early childhood teacher candidates? -A teacher educator's exploration through Self-study [Not invited]
Why is it so difficult to enter Japanese elementary schools? To find possibilities in the grass-roots programs to affect national policies [Not invited]
Uchida Chiharu
The 22nd International Conference of Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education 2014/11 Oral presentation Kent State University
A case Study of Professional Development Program in a Japanese Kindergarten to promote teachers' ways of understanding children [Not invited]
Uchida Chiharu
The Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association (PECERA), 15th Annual Conference, Proceedings p.105. 2014/08 Oral presentation
日本協同教育学会第7回大会 発表要旨集, p.10-11 2010/10 Public symposium
Constructing Bridges among Different Figured Worlds: Experience of a White student teacher and an Asian supervisor in Teacher Education Program [Not invited]
The Annual Meeting of Mid-Western Educational Research Association, Columbus, OH,USA 2004
Voices from a Cultural Island: Transculturation of Japanese Preschool Children and their Parents in the United States [Not invited]
Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, USA 2004
1. The Reliability of Teachers' Assessment of Early Cognitive Development using a Naturalistic Observation Instrument [Not invited]
17th Biennial Meeting Conference on Human Development Program 2002
Discovering Families' Cultural Capital Through a Japanese Language Program for Young Children and Their Parents with Multiple Linguistic Backgrounds
UCHIDA Chiharu; SAITO Hiromi 2019Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education MHB) 82 -83 2019/08
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2017/04 -2020/03
Author : osawa tsutomu
This study is practical research of ESD for problem solving ability development, using of New course of study at school (Kindergarten and Junior high school) and 21st century education in Japan. We got results as follows A,B,C,D. Advanced cases study of A,B.●A:2017:Germany(Advanced country of ESD),●B:2017:Belarus(Advanced country of ESD after Chernobyl atomic power plant accident),●C:2018,2019:Development of new educational methods and practical researches in Fukushima at schools.●D:2019:We had publication of this study reports and symposium.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2015/04 -2019/03
Author : UCHIDA Teruhisa
Products of this research project are mainly represented in these three papers below.
[1] Uchida, T. (2017). Subjective evaluations of voice conversion procedures modeled after manipulation of vocal tract length and speaker de-identification, Journal of Acoustical Society of Japan, 73, 151-162. [2] Uchida, T. (2018). Reversal of the relation between impressions of voice pitch and height of fundamental frequency: Cognitive biases caused by conversion of tone quality. Acoustical Science & Technology, 39 (2) 143-146. [3] Uchida, T. (2019). Reversal of relationship between impression of voice pitch and height of fundamental frequency: Its appearance and disappearance. Acoustical Science & Technology, 40 (3), 198-208.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Date (from‐to) : 2014/04 -2018/03
Author : Kino Kazuyo
This study explored the desirable styles of empathy for kindergarten and nursery school teachers to keep their mental health at work, using the data collected from students in the kindergarten and nursery-school teacher education courses, kindergarten and nursery-school teachers, and parents of kindergarten and nursery-school children. The results showed that in maintaining their mental health it was necessary to reduce their emotional susceptibility and self-oriented emotional reactivity. From the results above, we made an educational program focusing on self-understanding of empathy to use in seminars for kindergarten and nursery-school teacher education courses.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2011/04 -2015/03
Author : UCHIDA Teruhisa; OHTSU Tatsuo; ITO Kei; UCHIDA Chiharu
In recent years, the globalizing society demands more sophisticated abilities to communicate directly with the people from different countries. The current research examined abilities required for the dialogic situations and conducted studies on test development in order to evaluate speech communication abilities. During this research project, the following three phases were conducted: 1) historical analysis and evaluation on the English listening comprehension tests of the National Center Test, 2) constructions of a quantitative model to represent relationship between characteristics of speech sound and impressions of the speaker’s personality, and 3) experiments to evaluate English listening testing utilizing converted speech sounds whose fundamental frequencies were changed.
The purpose of this study is to develop programs to prepare the teacher candidates who will work in kindergartens/daycare centers with increasing cultural diversity. A set of the data was collected by interviewing professors and observing classes of their teacher education programs in the U.S. The second set was collected in Japan by interviewing young and veteran teachers and administrators regarding how they view and work with children with diverse cultural backgrounds, especially the Japanese Language Learners (JLL). The third was collected from special programs for young JLLs before entering the elementary schools. The findings suggested that the current and future teachers need to develop culturally responsive attitudes toward diversity. This requires abilities to understand children from families with diverse cultural backgrounds, and knowledge of bilingual development in order to provide equal learning opportunities for all learners.
This study aimed to develop a new educational-evaluation method for speech com-munication based on logical thinking, suitable expression and person perception. Study 1 focused on multidimensional relationships between prosodic features of speech sound and personality impressions. Study 2 examines relationships between the Eng-lish listening comprehension test and other subjects in the National Center Test.
School Culture and peer culture
その他の研究制度
Date (from‐to) : 2003 -2007
Japanese children's transculturation process in the U.S.
Hitachi Foundation for Family and Education:Hitachi Katei Kyouiku Zaidan (Hitachi Foundation for Family and Education) Grant
Date (from‐to) : 2004 -2006
Making Possibilities Visible: The process of collaboration between general and special education teachers in an inclusive early childhood education program.
The Ohio State Univ. Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship for dissertation research:The Ohio State University Alumni Organization
Date (from‐to) : 2003/09 -2005/08
Teaching Experience
Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Care
Toyo University
Pedagogy with Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Care
Toyo University
Developmental Psychology
Kyoei University
Committee Membership
2017/01 - Today National institute for Educational Policy Research, Early Childhood Education Research Center Fellow
2023/10 -2025/09 International Association of Early Chlidhood Education director
2021/06 -2025/06 Intercultural Education Society in Japan Journal Review Commitee
2023/04 -2025/03 Toyo University Center for Teacher Education Vice Director
2017/09 -2023/09 The Japanese Society for the Study on Teacher Education The Board of Directors, a director representing Kanto Region
2019/06 -2021/06 Intercultural Education Society in Japan Journal Editorial Committee, regular editor
2019/05 -2020/03 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Teachnology Committee member, Meeting of experts on the enhancement of education for children from abroad
2017/06 -2019/05 Intercultural Education Society in Japan Committee of Relations
Social Contribution
札幌市立手稲中央幼稚園、はまなす幼稚園研修講師
Date (from-to) : 2024/06/01-2025/03/31
Role : Lecturer
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : 札幌市
心と言葉を育む多文化共生保育
Date (from-to) : 2025/02/12
Role : Lecturer
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : 埼玉県保育士会
Event, Program, Title : 埼玉県保育士会特別研修Ⅱ
外国につながりのある子どもへの幼児教育・保育およびその家庭への子育て支援
Date (from-to) : 2024/10/23
Role : Lecturer
Category : Seminar
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : 大阪府私立幼稚園連盟
Event, Program, Title : 大私幼 令和6年度・第2回キンダーカウンセラー研修会
外国にルーツを持つこどもを地域で支える
Date (from-to) : 2023/12/02-2024/10/17
Role : Lecturer
Category : Seminar
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : 浦安市 市民経済部 市民大学校
Event, Program, Title : うらやす市市民大学「地域で支える子育て環境」第7・8回
「外国につながる子どもたちの幼児期の育ちを考える」
Date (from-to) : 2024/09/08
Role : Lecturer
Category : Seminar
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : 川崎市高津市民館
Event, Program, Title : 高津市民館市民エンパワーメント研修
帰国・外国人幼児への指導のポイント~安心して自己を発揮できる園生活のために
Date (from-to) : 2024/09/06
Role : Lecturer
Category : Seminar
Sponser, Organizer, Publisher : 札幌市教育委員会幼児教育センター
Event, Program, Title : 幼児教育センター講演会「幼児教育における今日的な課題」~外国人幼児等の受け入れにおける配慮について~