In this study, we conducted a hearing investigation on the existing circumstances of water-safety teaching in elementary education and compared it with the circumstances in Japan. The hearing investigation, which was done mainly on elementary education and water-safety teaching groups, was conducted by Kevin Moran, a professor at the University of Auckland, and water-safety teaching groups. The hearing investigation, revealed that the various physical aspects of swimming lessons (for example, depth of pools) in elementary education in New Zealand were more or less the same as those in Japan, but the teaching contents for students and swimming instructors and the frameworks were largely different. In New Zealand, the educational materials and teaching framework are fixed, with a circular form so that research institutes such as universities can investigate the results of the study, and use the results to improve the teaching contents and materials of the next fiscal year or later. Meanwhile, in Japan, we found that teaching is mainly based on the instructors' experiences, and each instructor conducts individualistic and multiple water-safety teaching on the basis of his or her abundant experiences. When we consider the water-safety teaching in elementary education in Japan, it is essential that we urgently refer to the teaching frameworks, investigate the various methods of water-safety teaching conducted by different instructors, unify them by nothing their merits, and build a concrete framework where in people involved in teaching swimming can freely share their teaching contents. It is also important to develop a circulating form educational environment like that of New Zealand.

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