Preschool in Three Cultures, China, Japan, and the U.S.

<Tab/>Between 7:00 am to 8:00 am, children arrived their school and said good-bye their parents. Then children started to their school activities such as learning something new from teacher, playing with each other and having lunch. Especially in Japan, preschool is associated with temple, just as many U.S preschool relate with the church. These general ways were similar preschool experience across cultures. However, there are two different ways between Japan/China …

…though Japan and China have nice material for children such as origami and puzzle, they did not have chance to how to play with that. It means that every child did the same thing during the class activities. In U.S, they have choice that whatever children want to do. Thus, ethnocentrism can occur at any countries and any stage of the research process. We try to get rid of this bias between other cultures.