The purpose of this study is to consider academics and students as actors in community development in a broad sense and to discuss the achievements and problems in fieldwork education. The study area ...is the Wara District in Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture. The author has been participating in activities toward developing a community development group of the Wara District since 2011. This has been achieved through workshops on the maintenance of rural settlements and inward migration and by collaborative research with students about the consciousness of migrants and the network of members in community development groups. Following on this, the author has been conducting laboratory workshops in the Wara District to enhance the knowledge and the motivation of local residents through a report of graduation theses about regional revitalization by students who studied the technique of fieldwork. According to the questionnaire conducted by the author's laboratory at the workshops, most participants highly appreciated the planning of the workshop and contents of the students' presentations. By promoting fieldwork education in the area where the academic researcher is constantly cooperating with the community to promote development, students can frequently visit the area. As a result, the students can obtain a detailed understanding of the area and develop a personal attachment to the location and its residents. This indicates that fieldwork education is more effective than just mastering research skills. In other words, through interaction with local residents and an experience of diverse activities, it is possible to cultivate human resources and spokespersons for regional development.
Cortisol secretion after awakening, an index of hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis activity, appears to be related to psychosocial stressors, or to symptoms caused by psychosocial stressors. The ...relationship between the quality, duration, and magnitude of psychosocial factors and cortisol secretion is however, unclear. Therefore, the effect of episodic stress associated with writing a graduation thesis on cortisol secretion after awakening was investigated. Saliva samples were collected from 10 undergraduate students at awakening, and 30, 45, and 60 min after awakening 1 month, 2 weeks, and a few days before the thesis submission and 1 week after the submission. They also completed the Short form of Profile of Moods Scale (POMS-S) on the night before each sampling. Results indicated that cortisol levels were higher a few days before the thesis submission compared to 1 month before submission. Scores of “Fatigue” and “Tension-Anxiety” in POMS-S were also higher a few days before submission. These results suggest that episodic stress associated with writing a graduation thesis caused an increase in cortisol levels after awakening.
This study describes the achievements of a program that provides technology education about radiation to develop practical core engineers, then the effects of the programed were discussed. An ...education program starting at an early age and continuous and consistent educational agendas through seven years of college has been constructed in collaboration with regional organizations. Subjects relating to atomic energy or nuclear engineering were regrouped as “Subjects Related to Atomic Power Education” for most grades in each department. These subjects were included in the syllabus and the student guide book to emphasize a continuous and consistent policy throughout the seven-year period of college study, comprising the five-year system and the additional two-year advanced course. Furthermore, the content of lectures, experiments, and internships was enriched and realigned in collaboration with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Okayama University, and Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. Additional educational materials were developed from inspection visits by teaching staff to atomic energy facilities were also used in the classes. Two student experiment textbooks were developed to promote two of the subjects related to atomic energy: “Cloud Chamber Experiment” and “A Test of γ-ray Inverse Square Law.” In addition to the expansion and rearrangement of atomic power education, research on atomic power conducted for graduation thesis projects was undertaken to enhance educational and research activities. Some examples are as follows: “Study on the Relation between γ Dose Rate and Rainfall in Northern Okayama Area,” “Remote Sensing of Radiation Dose Rate by Customizing an Autonomous Robot,” and “Nuclear Reaction Analysis for Composition Measurement of BN Thin Films.” It should be noted that an atomic-energy-related education working group has been in place officially to continue the above activities in the college since 2011. In consequence, although government subsidy has been decreasing, both human and material resources have been enhanced, and many students with a satisfactory understanding of atomic energy are being developed.
This paper describes the achievements of a program in which technology education is provided to cultivate practical core engineers for low-level radiation. It was made possible by means of (1) an ...introductory education program starting at an early age and a continuous agenda throughout college days and (2) regional collaboration. First, with regard to the early-age introductory education program and the continuous education agenda, the subjects of study related to atomic energy or nuclear engineering were reorganized as “Subjects related to Atomic Power Education” for all grades in all departments. These subjects were included in the syllabus and the student guide book, emphasizing a continuous and consistent policy throughout seven-year college study, including the five-year system and additional two-year advanced course. Second, to promote practical education, the contents of lectures, experiments, and internships were enriched and realigned in collaboration with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Okayama University and The Cyugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. In addition to the expansion and rearrangement of atomic power education, research on atomic power conducted for graduation thesis projects were undertaken to enhance the educational and research activities. In consequence, it has been estimated that there is now a total of fourteen subject areas in atomic energy technology, more than eight-hundred registered students in the department, and thirteen members of the teaching staff related to atomic energy technology. Furthermore, the “Tsuyama model” is still being developed. This program was funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
This study analyzes graduation theses of undergraduate Japanese majors in China (hereafter referred to as “Japanese majors”) with the aim of probing into how Japanese majors are using citations in ...their academic writing. The results of the survey show the following tendencies: 1) Japanese learners' citation density is low; 2) Japanese learners' citations from less academically published sources, even unknown sources are not rare; 3) Japanese learners tend to use indirect citation rather than direct citation; 4) Many citations with the reference mark of “author’s family name plus publication year” are found, and citations with only annotation or reference serial number are few. Secondary citations are also found in Japanese learners' writing; 5) Japanese learners prefer to use "Noberu" as the citation verb, also with a tendency of overgeneralization of past tense in citation verbs; 6) Japanese learners cite more in the introduction.
The prevalence of animals in society, and recognition of the multiplicity of roles they play in human social life, has invoked significant interest from certain subsections of the social sciences. ...However, research in this area, to date, tends to be at an empirical and inherently psychological level. It is the contention of the current article that we need to redress this imbalance if we are to create a legitimate space wherein sociology can be used to investigate human-animal relations/interactions. In order to achieve this, an examination of the foundations of sociological thought is needed. This is explored in the current article through the use of one substantive, highly topical, subject in human-animal studies: the human-animal abuse ‘link.’
This article discusses the student support system at Hiroshima Shudo University and a 2015 case of tutoring a developmentally challenged student in the department of English language and literature ...at HSU. It describes the process in which the student studied for his graduation thesis. He obtained reliable text materials from the Internet, processed them with a concordance program, a text editor, a spreadsheet program, and compiled his results with a word processor.
This contribution stems from the personal experience of the author regarding how he became acquainted with embryology and how he finally entered the field of developmental biology. It reports his ...feelings as a student of the Histology and Embryology course as it was taught in the late 1970s, and his present efforts in teaching developmental biology to university students. In the Developmental Biology course at Pisa University today, students are taught the tissue, molecular and genetic mechanisms that regulate development of several model systems. Drosophila is introduced at the beginning, because of the great knowledge that it has brought to the unraveling of the molecular aspects of development and because it allows several basic concepts to be introduced, and vertebrate systems follow. Other topics include the classic experiments on amphibian systems, which are explained in the light of recent molecular advances, as well as the genetically more versatile vertebrate systems such as the mouse.
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