Faculty of Childhood Sport Education

Promote children’s health and security and help build a fulfilling society by providing them with proper education during the periods of infancy, preschool, and school age, and by teaching them healthy exercising habits.

Talent development vision

The School of Childhood Sport Education’s curriculum is designed to teach students the ability to play and learn with young children involving physical contact, along with the practical skills for providing instructions concerning physical education, sports, playful exercises, and health in general.
The curriculum also allows the students to learn fundamental theories on the development and education of infants and young children, as well as wide-ranging knowledge of all subjects and extracurricular education offered at elementary schools, all modules of education offered at kindergartens and nurseries, and advanced expertise in physical education (sports and health science).

Targeted skills

Develop communication skills and wide-ranging knowledge that are conducive to developing well-balanced human capacities in children.
Learn advanced knowledge and practical skills covering the mental and physical features and characteristics of infants and young children as well as their lives.

Features of the School of Childhood Sport Education

Four key features that develop the students’ ability to promote children’s growth and health

Feature 1. Optimal relationship between young children and physical exercise that can only be learned at NSSU

Childhood sport education is an academic discipline that tightly fuses the knowledge from physical education studies (sports science) and childhood education studies, which is a branch of pedagogy and early childhood education studies, with emphasis on the developmental stages of infancy and early childhood. As NSSU is a center of cutting-edge research in sports science, the students can learn from leading experts in the field about what constitutes an optimal relationship between infants or young children and their physical exercise, and appropriate instruction methods that can be applied to achieve it.

Feature 2. Learn instruction skills that promote the mental and physical growth of infants and young children.

Exercise provides a whole range of benefits aside from the improvement of physical fitness and athletic abilities. To demonstrate this, NSSU has developed its original exercise program that emphasizes the importance of cultivating infants’ and young children’s eager mind and effective communication capabilities, and of developing their motor control functions, which is used in the curriculum to develop the students’ skills to work as competent instructors that can promote and monitor infants’ and young children’s health and growth.

Feature 3. Two courses of study options available to suit your envisioned career path.

Course of Childhood Sport Education

Learn education skills that are required of a competent instructor that can promote young children’s healthy mental and physical growth.

Licenses and qualifications that may be obtained

Elementary school teacher class-1 license
Kindergarten teacher class-1 license
Junior sports instructor (eligibility for examination)
Entry-level para-sports instructor

Course of Early Childhood Education

Learn practical skills that are required of a competent instructor that can actively engage young children in playful exercises in such a manner that is interesting to them and can satisfy their desire to exercise.

Licensesandqualificationsthatmaybeobtained

Kindergarten teacher class-1 license
Nursery teacher license
Entry-level para-sports instructor
Certified babysitter

Feature 4. Curriculum designed to prepare students to become professionals in childhood sports

Such sophisticated curriculum is one that only NSSU can offer, as it is the information hub on the latest research activities conducted on human body movement and exercise.

▼List of demonstrative course options to choose from
Adapted sports demonstration/ apparatus gymnastic/ soccer/ rhythmic gymnastics/ softball/ table tennis/ trampoline/ basketball/badminton/ track and field/ recreation, etc.

Variety of practicums offered to improve practical skills

Outdoor activity practicum A (snow)

Outdoor activity practicum B (fields and mountains)

Outdoor activity practicum C (outdoor activities for young children)