2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Farm animal assisted education aiming at the improvement of human-farm animal relationship
| Project/Area Number |
15580235
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Zootechnical science/Grassland science
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TANIDA Hajime Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Associate Professor, 大学院・生物圏科学研究科, 助教授 (20197528)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | Animal assisted education / Farm animal assisted education / Farm education / Human-farm animal relationships / Animal Welfare / Field education |
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| Research Abstract |
The Japanese government recently points out the importance of food and agricultural education for children, and various kinds of food education are attempted all over the country. Most children at school have been given the opportunity to experience rice cultivation and vegetable growing through class activities. However, these activities tended to be one event experience, and persistent and systematic food education was not carried out at school : Further, as children living in the cities do not have chance to see and touch livestock animals. Hiroshima University offers local children the opportunity to visit our university farm in order to study what livestock production is about. According to our study, however, we observe that response of children toward farm animals varied in many different ways. Some children love to touch and feed the animals, on one hand, many children are afraid of those animals and never approached them. Moreover most of the children and their parents do not have knowledge of the relationship between the farm and the products come from the farm. Based on the fact, we realize the necessity of developing the food agriculatural education program for children, especially kindergartners, incorporating farm animal assisted education, which will improve the perception of citizen toward agriculture, environment, animal welfare, and food safety.
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Research Products
(16 results)
