| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Shoes play an important role in supporting an upright stance for all humans, and children's shoes especially are crucial in aiding correct physical development and movement during developmental years. However, Japanese have a relatively short history of shoe-wearing, and previous research has shown their lack of knowledge about shoe functionality. The issue has been of concern to some educators and doctors, but unfortunately no measures have been taken to rectify resulting problems in the general population. Our research is an interdisciplinary project aimed at ensuring the podiatric health and physiologically correct development of Japanese children by engaging in "shoe education" for children themselves, their parents, and teachers of all kinds from daycare through high-school. Enacted on a nationwide scale, our efforts to overcome Japanese lack of knowledge about correct shoe use include daycare professionals, junior-high and high-school teachers, apparel scholars, ergonomics specialists, biomechanics researchers, orthopedists, pediatricians, and members of the shoe industry. We studied the effectiveness of various pedagogical methodologies about the topics of shoe selection, size measurement, and shoe-wearing itself.
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