Educational and Therapeutic Structural Aspect of Outdoor Educational programs

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K16489
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: WATANABE Hitoshi 筑波大学, 体育系, 助教 (70375476)
• Research Collaborator: SAKATANI mitsuru ; TOUKAIRIN takeshi
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 野外教育 / 自然体験活動 / 構造 / 冒険教育プログラム / 組織キャンプ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study concerned educational and therapeutic structural aspect of outdoor educational programs. The sub-purpose of this study was to carry out the organized camp etc. and to investigate effects on the self-enhancement of the participants.
The following results were obtained: 1) The self-enhancement of participants showed the significant progress. 2) According to qualitative analysis, most of participants were able to give positive meaning to their experience but a few of them recognized negative feel for their experience. 3) Regarding educational and therapeutic structural aspect of outdoor educational programs, the feature was organized by compared with functional relative programs.

Free Research Field

野外教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

研究成果の学術的意義や社会的意義は、まずは何より、我が国の青少年教育としての野外教育プログラム実践に関して、その後押しとなるエビデンスの蓄積となったことであろう。また、野外教育プログラムの個別性への影響の違いを明らかにし、個々の特性等に配慮した指導の重要性を指摘し、このような質的アプローチの研究の重要性を示したことである。さらに、野外教育プログラムの教育・治療的構造について、機能的類縁プログラムの比較検討から理論的な整理を行い、「野外教育の全体像」を解明する一つの布石となったことである。