The Research on Service Learning in Depopulated Area.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25882002
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Yamagata University
• Principal Investigator: TOKITO JUMPEI 山形大学, 小白川キャンパス, 講師 (20713134)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: サービスラーニング / 受け入れ地域への影響 / 高等教育 / 過疎地域 / 地域愛着 / 重回帰分析 / M-GTA

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Recent years, the service learning has been focused on as one of the active learning in higher education. This Research has two objectives. The first one is to clarify the contributing factor people in depopulated area accept the service learning program. The second one is to clarify the feature of accepting service learning. Both quantitative and qualitative survey were conducted toward regional people in charge of accepting service learning in the Mogami area, Yamagata prefecture.
As the result, correlation between the emotion of place attachment and the attitude of acceptance for service learning were clarified and in addition, the effect of accepting service learning and the two significant features: “the importance of mediating existing regional activity” and “the educational support from regional people to students” were indicated.

Free Research Field

教育工学