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The Harold E. Jones Child Study Center is a research and educational institution for young children at the University of California, Berkeley.〔University of California, Berkeley. 1999-2000. ''Institute of Human Development: Sunset Review'', p. 4.〕 It is one of the oldest continuously running centers for the study of children in the country.〔Harms, Thelma & Tracy, Rebecca. 2006. Linking Research to Best Practice: University Laboratory Schools in Early Childhood Education. ''Young Children'', July, p. 89.〕 The Jones Child Study Center has a special relationship with the Institute of Human Development as a site for research, training and outreach to the community, parents, and teachers. The Institute of Human Development's fundamental mission is to study evolutionary, biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that affect human development from birth through old age. Research conducted at the Institute of Human Development and the Jones Child Study Center is interdisciplinary: psychology, education, social welfare, architecture, sociology, linguistics, public health, and pediatrics. The primary audiences for the findings include scholars and parents.〔University of California, Berkeley. 1999-2000. ''Institute of Human Development: Sunset Review'', p. 27.〕 Faculty, postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students observe and test children attending the preschool for their research projects. Undergraduate students in Early Childhood Education may also gain experience in the classrooms as teachers' assistants.〔http://www.housing.berkeley.edu/child/2007_Parent_Handbook.pdf〕 The Jones CSC preschool has an outdoor play area that is accessible virtually all day long via sliding doors and partially protected by an overhead canopy. Catherine Landreth, a former director of the school and designer of the building, worked with Joseph Esherick to create a space where the development of children would be highlighted. This included the careful planning of ceiling heights and placement of activity centers. In most other preschools, the ceilings tend to be low which emphasizes the height of adults in relation to children. Esherick and Landreth believed that a higher ceiling would shift the observers' focus from the height differential of the people occupying the space to the activities taking place. The activity centers were constructed to keep the children engaged by placing items at the child's eye level.〔Esherick, Joseph, ''An Architectural Practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1938-1996'', typescript of an oral history conducted 1994-1996 by Suzanne B. Riess, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996, pp. 437-438.〕 Landreth wanted a place that did not impose learning but encouraged them to engage in activities that interests the child.〔Landreth, Catherine, ''The Nursery School of the Institute of Child Welfare of the University of California, Berkeley'', an oral history conducted in 1981 by Dan Burke, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1983.〕 The guiding philosophy behind the preschool is that a child's environment can positively affect development.〔Hunter, D. Lyn. 2003. Why do people turn out the way they do? ''Berkeleyan'', April 24.〕 The Jones CSC is also the home to the Greater Good Science Center, which is an interdisciplinary research center concentrating on the scientific understanding of social well-being. Research from neuroscience, psychology, sociology, political science, economics, public policy, social welfare, public health, law, and organizational behavior study the social and biological roots of positive emotions and behaviors. The Greater Good Science Center's website and publications make research accessible to the general public. The Center produces a quarterly magazine, ''Greater Good magazine'', that addresses research in the social sciences related to compassion in action.〔(Greater Good Science Center )〕 == History == The Institute of Human Development and the Harold E. Jones Child Study Center were originally named the Institute of Child Welfare, established in 1927 by psychology professor Harold E. Jones and Rockefeller Foundation representative Lawrence Frank with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation.〔Eichorn, Dorothy, an oral history conducted in 1982 , in ''The Institute of Human Development oral history project: interviews conducted 1982-1983'' by Vicki Green, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, p. 4.〕 Initial research studied the factors that affect human development from the earliest stages of life. These early projects were to be longitudinal studies, following the lives of subjects over the course of their lifetime. The mission for the Institute of Child Welfare was to provide a quality nursery school for children while giving scholars and students easy access to a young population for observation and research.〔Jones, Mary C., ''Harold E. Jones and Mary C. Jones, Partners in Longitudinal Studies'', an oral history conducted 1981-1982 by Suzanne B. Riess, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1983, p. 72.〕 The Institute of Child Welfare was one of the first interdisciplinary centers in the United States for research on child development.〔Sanford, R.N., Eichorn, D.H., & Honzik, M.P. 1960. Harold E. Jones, 1894-1960. ''Child Development'', 31, p. 595.〕 In 1960 the nursery school moved to its current location from the original site on Bancroft Way and was named for Harold E. Jones, the Director of the Institute of Human Development from 1935-1960.〔Eichorn, Dorothy, an oral history conducted in 1982, in'' The Institute of Human Development oral history project: interviews conducted 1982-1983'' by Vick Green, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 55pp.〕 The current facility was designed by University of California, Berkeley architect Joseph Esherick in collaboration with Catherine Landreth, to meet the educational and physical needs of young children as well as to support research on early childhood. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold E. Jones Child Study Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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