379 research outputs found
sj-jpg-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X231221436 – Supplemental material for Brothers with Becker muscular dystrophy show discordance in skeletal muscle computed tomography findings: A case report
No full textSupplemental material, sj-jpg-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X231221436 for Brothers with Becker muscular dystrophy show discordance in skeletal muscle computed tomography findings: A case report by Yoshinori Nambu, Taku Shirakawa, Kayo Osawa, Hisahide Nishio, Kandai Nozu, Masafumi Matsuo and Hiroyuki Awano in SAGE Open Medical Case Reports</p
Educational Effects of Adventure Education with Sea Kayaking on University Students
No full text事例研究論文The purpose of this study is to examine the educational effects of adventure education using sea kayaking in a lifelong sports course and to clarify the significance of adventure education on university students. Data collecting was conducted through five different approaches: (1) observation of sea kayaking activities, (2) learning portfolios of the whole course, (3) questionnaire survey on Fundamental Competencies for Working Persons, (4) assessment of teamwork using a rubric, and (5) two rounds of follow-up study. Data collection (2) to (5) were designed to provide students with opportunities for reflection. As a result, first, we were able to observe the progress of collaboration in the midst of risky natural activities, such as the movements naturally synchronized to overcome high waves and fast tidal currents. The learning portfolios demonstrated each student acted with an awareness of the items of Fundamental Competencies for Working Persons selected by him/herself for each activity and made an effort to overcome his/her weaknesses. The questionnaire survey on Fundamental Competencies for Working Persons showed that there was a significant improvement of 0.5 or more in 15 of the 32 items (on a 4-point scale) between pre- and post-surveys. In the teamwork assessment, the students' self-assessment tended to be higher than the faculty's as a whole, but the discrepancy was reduced in the post-assessment and the post-assessment scores increased significantly in all dimensions of teamwork in self- and faculty-assessments. In the follow-up study, it was found that the communication skills developed in this course were actually applied to other courses and job-hunting activities. The results of these surveys indicate that adventure education using sea kayaking has a positive effect on various aspects of students' abilities while forming a basis for their subsequent development
<Notes>Educational Significance of Adventure Education at Universities: Trends and Prospects of Adventure Education Research
No full text第一部 論考I Articles本稿の目的は、大学における冒険教育の教育的意義を明らかにするために、冒険教育の研究動向と課題をまとめることである。まず、冒険教育が野外教育に包含されることを確認し、いくつかの文献で示されている野外教育一般と冒険教育を区別する指標を5つに整理した。あわせて野外教育と冒険教育の歴史を概観し、淵源をたどり、根底にある教育理念を探った。また、大学における冒険教育の実践状況を調べ、その教育効果として、帰属意識、自己効力感、リーダーシップ、グループワークスキルなどの向上を挙げていた。しかしながら、日本の研究では、事前・事後の測定にとどまることが多く、継続的な効果を測定できていないなどの課題があった。さらに、冒険教育の活動の質を高め、学習者の学びを促進させるための冒険教育のモデルや理論を整理し、活動後の教育効果の持続性に関する理論を整理した。どのモデルや理論にもそれぞれ良さがあり限界があるため、組み合わせて利用する必要があることがわかった。The objective of this paper is to identify the trends and issues of adventure education research to understand its educational significance at universities. First, we confirmed that adventure education is included in outdoor education. Then, we organized the indicators that distinguish general field education from adventure education into five categories based on the literature review of previous studies. We also provided an overview of the history of outdoor education and adventure education, traced their origins, and explored their underlying educational philosophies. Results indicate that the implementation of adventure education at universities has several educational effects such as an improved sense of belonging, self-efficacy, leadership, and group work skills. However, upon closer examination of the educational effects of adventure education, issues such as the failure to measure ongoing effects became evident. These issues are due to the fact that assessments are conducted only before and after implementation. The paper then organized adventure education models that are aimed at improving the quality of activities and that facilitate learning. Finally, we proposed a theory that explain the effectiveness of educational effects and confirmed that all models have certain strengths and limitations, and that they need to be used in combination
Educational Effects of Adventure Education Incorporated into New Student Orientation Programming : Through Running a Project Adventure
No full text事例研究論文Practice Research Paper本研究の目的は，新入生オリエンテーションに組み入れたプロジェクトアドベンチャーという冒険教育の長期的な教育効果を検証することである．そこで，教育プログラムとワークシートを設計した上で，次の3つの研究を行った．第1に，参与観察，ワークシートの記述の分析，及び，事前・事後の質問紙調査の結果を分析して，取組直後の短期的な教育効果を分析した．第2に，追跡調査（質問紙調査とインタビュー調査）を行い，3年次終了までの長期的な教育効果を確認した．第3に，複数の調査結果を比較・結合しつつ，入学時の冒険教育の体験が，大学での学びや学生生活での体験と相互作用していく過程について検討した．その結果，以下の点が明らかになった．まず，本取組は，学生に一歩を踏み出させる機会を与え，仲間と協力する意味や楽しさを経験から学ばせていた．次に，このような経験を伴っていたがゆえに，本取組で編成したグループの関係性が大学生活の中でも維持され，教員との距離感の接近などもあいまって，仲間意識の継続による学習コミュニティの形成につながっていた．さらに，その素地を背景に，学生は，本取組の経験を新たな課題の挑戦に活かしており，その挑戦の連鎖が，経験の積み重ねを生み，学びの好循環をもたらしていた．これらの研究により，入学時の取組が３年次終了時にいたるまで長期的な教育効果をもっていることが示された．Many Japanese universities provide various initiatives and assistance in order to facilitate the transition from high school to university with the purpose of promoting adaptation to universities for students. One such initiative is new student orientation, which often takes the form of preparing schedules, providing guidance on course registration, and the introduction to facilities and undergraduate faculties/departments. However, the details of such initiatives differ among universities to match the characteristics of the undergraduate students. This study examines an orientation initiative that incorporates adventure education for new students in the department of engineering at a medium-sized, regional private university. It is similar to the Outdoor Initiative Programs conducted in both the United States and Canada. Programs such as these aim to develop relationships between the faculty members and students as well as among students themselves with the aim to give them a comfortable fresh start as university students. We assessed the long-term educational effects of Project Adventure; an adventure education program incorporated into the new studentʼs orientation. We designed an educational program as well as numerous helpful worksheets, and analyzed the short-term educational effects presented immediately after the program is finished via participant observation, worksheet descriptions, and pre- and post-questionnaire surveys. We then conducted a follow-up survey (in the form of questionnaire surveys and interviews) to confirm the long-term educational effects through the end of the third year. Further, by comparing and combining the results of these multiple surveys, we examined the combination of the experience process of our program, along with the experience of student learning and student life. The results revealed the following points. First, the program gave students the opportunity to take the first step to learning the meaning and pleasure of the cooperation with their peers through direct experience. Second, the relationships formed among the groups during their participation were maintained during the studentsʼ university careers. Along with the proximity of the instructors, this led to the formation of a strong learning community through a continuing sense of camaraderie. Further, the students were able to apply their experience in this program by facing new challenges; the cycle of facing and succeeding these challenges led to experience accumulation, paving the way for a virtuous cycle of learning. This study shows that the educational effects of the adventure education program when students enter university are long-term, extending to the very end of the third year
Skeleton on a Path: A Lyric Biography of Matsuo Basho
No full textThis thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until April 2028 at the earliest.This thesis is a lyric biography of the life and reputation of the 17th century Japanese poet, Matsuo Basho. In addition to providing a retelling of his biography, the thesis also offers creative speculations and analysis of various aspects of the poet’s work. In additional, the thesis follows the author in his travel to Japan, where he recounts his experiences with various locations that have become the topics of Basho’s travel diaries and poems. Finally, the thesis analyzes key figures in the East and the West after Basho’s era, in an attempt to understand more about the legacy of the poet through analysis of those he influenced.2028-04-2
Behavioral interventions for reducing aggressive behavior of individuals with a brain injury
No full textIndividuals who suffer a brain injury often exhibit challenging behaviors that they previously did not display. Challenging behaviors may include various types of aggressive behaviors such as physical aggression toward individuals and/or objects as well as verbal aggression. Behavioral approach is one of psychological intervention procedures that are often employed to eliminate or reduce the frequency of aggressive behaviors. This article over viewed the occurrence of aggressive behaviors of individuals with a brain injury and outlined three types of behavioral interventions, the contingency management procedure, positive behavior intervention support, and a combination of both. All are based on the theory of operant conditioning that posits that behaviors are learned through consequences. Although behavioral interventions are widely employed to ameliorate undesirable behaviors, their effectiveness varies among individuals. Tips for choosing an appropriate procedure are discussed.Review Articleothe
Behavioral interventions for reducing aggressive behavior of individuals with a brain injury
No full textIndividuals who suffer a brain injury often exhibit challenging behaviors that they previously did not display. Challenging behaviors may include various types of aggressive behaviors such as physical aggression toward individuals and/or objects as well as verbal aggression. Behavioral approach is one of psychological intervention procedures that are often employed to eliminate or reduce the frequency of aggressive behaviors. This article over viewed the occurrence of aggressive behaviors of individuals with a brain injury and outlined three types of behavioral interventions, the contingency management procedure, positive behavior intervention support, and a combination of both. All are based on the theory of operant conditioning that posits that behaviors are learned through consequences. Although behavioral interventions are widely employed to ameliorate undesirable behaviors, their effectiveness varies among individuals. Tips for choosing an appropriate procedure are discussed.Review Articl
Examining the impact of a communication-focused intervention on promoting first-year college students’ sense of adjustment to the school environment: a case study
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Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Matsuo Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi
No full textThis paper investigates Australian author Richard Flanagan’s novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and attempts to clarify the reason why Flanagan chose this title, which is linked to the travel writings of the Japanese author Matsuo Basho, for his novel. The novel focuses on the central character’s prisoner of war experience on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, and depicts the POW camp as well as cruel Japanese behaviour and atrocities in a realistic way. The work seems to provide a postcolonial framework in the sense that there is a colonial and postcolonial relationship between the colonizer, and the colonized. However, in this novel, the colonizer is Eastern, and the colonized is Western, and this fact reverses postcolonial theory which postulates a structure in which the colonizer is usually considered as Western and the colonized, Eastern. Postcolonial theory, thus, cannot be applied in this novel, which attempts to fuse the two opposites, the Western view and the Eastern view, through the work of the Japanese poet. As a result, Flanagan, in writing The Narrow Road to the Deep North, goes beyond being a postcolonial writer to become a writer in a globalizing age
Intercalation of polypyrrole into graphite oxide
No full textIn this paper we report on the insertion of polypyrrole into layered graphite oxide. This was achieved by using the exfoliating and re-stacking properties of the host. The resulting intercalated product was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, FT-IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis and scanning electron microscopy. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.PT: J; CR: *ACS, 1996, ACS SYM SER, P622 BISSESSUR R, 2001, CHEM COMMUN 0907, P1598 BISSESSUR R, 2003, J MATER CHEM, V13, P44 BISSESSUR R, 2004, J MATER SCI, V39, P119 CASSAGNEAU T, 1998, ADV MATER, V10, P877 CASSAGNEAU T, 2000, LANGMUIR, V16, P7318 DING RF, 2003, POLYM DEGRAD STABIL, V81, P473 HUMMERS WS, 1958, J AM CHEM SOC, V80, P1339 KANATZIDIS MG, 1993, CHEM MATER, V5, P595 KOVTYUKHOVA NI, 1999, CHEM MATER, V11, P771 LIU ZH, 2002, LANGMUIR, V18, P4926 MATSUO Y, 1997, CARBON, V35, P113 MATSUO Y, 1998, CHEM MATER, V10, P2266 MATSUO Y, 2002, J MATER CHEM, V12, P1592 NAKAJIMA T, 1988, CARBON, V26, P357 WANG L, 1995, CHEM MATER, V7, P1753 WU CG, 1989, POLYM MATER SCI ENG, V61, P969 XIAO M, 2002, POLYMER, V43, P2245 XIAO P, 2000, CARBON, V38, P623; NR: 19; TC: 0; J9: SYNTHET METAL; PG: 5; GA: 093UXSource type: Electronic(1
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