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Toyama Lab
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A lab that studies children's learning and the environments that support it, through observation and experiments.
AboutAbout the lab
Studying how humans learn and the environments that support learning.
Toyama Lab studies child development. Its research supervision title in the graduate school is "Developmental Motivation Theory."
From the very earliest stages of development, children have built-in biases to direct attention to particular information and process it in particular ways.
The lab views development as what proceeds through the interaction between this cognitive foundation and the environment, including other people, objects, and the customs of a society.
Through observation and experiments, it explores the acquisition of knowledge and skills, the kind of environment that supports children's motivation, children's behavior in that environment, and their interactions with others.
Key terms
- Developmental psychology
- A field that studies how the mind and behavior change as people grow from birth
- Motivation
- The underlying process that makes people want to try something or keep going with it
- Cognitive development
- The growth of mental functions such as ways of perceiving, thinking, and remembering
NewsLab news
Professor Toyama co-authored a revised edition of Yasashii Hattatsu to Gakushu (Accessible Development and Learning), published by Yuhikaku
Professor Toyama co-authored "The Infant's World Expanded by Walking: Exploring Developmental Cascades," now published
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how children acquire knowledge and skills, and what kind of environment should support children's motivation. The work is not only thinking in the head: it repeats a cycle of carefully observing phenomena from one's own viewpoint, imagining what lies behind them, and then thinking again.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment That Expands from the Start of Walking
Once babies can move on their own, the world they see and their interactions with people expand all at once. Through observation in daycare centers, the lab examines how the development of starting to walk and of sitting on a chair leads on to the development of other abilities.
*Illustrative imageGrowing Up Surrounded by Diverse People on an Island
On Taramajima Island in Okinawa, children grow up interacting with many kinds of adults beyond their families. The lab compares children's involvement in village sports days and community events at daycare centers with that in urban areas, and explores how mixing with diverse people affects children's resilience.
*Illustrative imageSupporting Young People Living with Illness
How do people who developed an illness that others find hard to understand at a young age, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), come to terms with it? The lab interviews them about the process of making meaning of their illness and considers how to support them.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorNoriko Toyama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Kamai Park Composite Playground Equipment” Harimawood / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Development That Expands from the Start of Walking: “Early toddler” Danilobu / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Growing Up Surrounded by Diverse People on an Island: “Tarama” Metatron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Supporting Young People Living with Illness: “Chronic fatigue syndrome” Shanghai killer whale / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Furuyama Lab): “Female Bunraku puppet Japan, early 20th century” Hiart / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Saji Lab): “CSIRO ScienceImage 1853 Fabric Swatches” Textile and Fibre Technology, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Sato Lab): “Hitane Elementary School classroom 1” Douglas P Perkins / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yamada Lab): “Lake Seliger. Ostashkov. View of Voroniy Island” Александр Байдуков / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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