Dr Yukiyo Nishida

Biography

Yukiyo Nishida is a member of Early Years within the School of Education. She specialises in Early childhood education and Comparative Education.

External Memberships

The International Froebel Society 

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.