Current Research
Selected Publications
Book
Bruce T., Nishida, Y., Powell, S., Wasmuth,H., Whinnett, J. (2023) The Bloomsbury Handbook to Friedrich Froebel, London: Bloomsbury
Nishida, Y. (2009). The challenge of multiage primary education in public education. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verglag, Dr. Mueller.
Book chapters
Nishida, Y., Sims, M. & Mukugi, K (2021). Changing worldviews?:A comparative study of Japanese and Australian students of early childhood education on study abroad programme in Zuocheng Zhang, Trevor Grimshaw, and Shi Xingsong (Eds.) International student education in tertiary settings: Interrogating programmes and processes in diverse contexts” (the ‘Work’), (pp. 60-81) London: Routledge
Nishida, Y. (2018). The Transfer, Translation and Transformation of Froebelian Theory and Practice: Annie L. Howe and her Glory Kindergarten and Teacher Training School in Kobe, Japan, 1889-1929. In T. Bruce, P. Elfer, & L. Werth (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Froebel and Early Childhood Practice: Re-articulating Research and Policy. London: Routledge
Nishida, Y., & Abe, F. (2016). 'Come, let us Live with our Children' : Undokai, the children's Play Festival at a Froebelian Kindergarten in Japan, 1889-2015. In H. May, K. Nawrotzki, & L. Prochner (Eds.), Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education: Transnational Investigations (pp. 151-165). London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Journal articles
Nishida, Y. (2022). Missionary women’s contribution to the development of kindergarten teacher training in Japan: Annie L. Howe and her Glory kindergarten teacher training school, History of Education Quarterly 64(4) 1-28
Nishida, Y. (2020). Froebelians “Made in Japan”: A History of Kindergarten Teacher Training Course in Nineteenth-century Japan, History of Education Researcher, No. 105, 10-20.
Nishida, Y. (2019). Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something Froebel? The development of origami in early childhood education in Japan. Paedagogica Historica, 55(4), 529-547.
Nishida, Y. (2018). Origami and Froebel Stars: Froebel’s Theory and Pedagogy in Japanese Kindergartens, History of Education Researcher, No. 101, 12-22.
Nishida, Y. & Sims, M. (2018). Short-Term International Experience (STIE) and Students' Understanding of Quality Early Childhood Service Provision. Journal of Education and Learning, 7(2), 21-33.
Nishida, Y. (2015). A chrysanthemum in the garden: a Christian kindergarten in the Empire of Japan. Paedagogica Historica, 51(3), 280-297.
Nishida, Y. (2014). "Come, let us live with our children!" The Kindergarten arrival in Japan. Early Education Journal, 72, 6-7.