Significance and Potential of Literature-Based EFL Education for Nursing Students

Objectives : This paper aims to identify the significance and potential of using literature in nursing education in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom through a brief overview of literature-based education for medical and nursing students in the U.S. and the U.K. Methods : First, the paper summarizes the history of literature-based education for medicine and nursing students in the U.S. and the U.K. Then, examples are presented of literary works that are expected to be effective teaching materials in future literature-based education for nursing students, and the main contents of these works are summarized. Conclusions : An overview of the increasing number of papers on this topic reveals that it is essential for medical and nursing students not only to have a sufficient amount of basic knowledge in the medical field, but also to have ample opportunities to acquire awareness of the significance of understanding patients' feelings and dealing with ethical issues. We suggest that literature-based English classes are not only effective for improving the English skills of Japanese nursing students, but also for encouraging students to consider patients' feelings and to promote reflective thinking. Further studies on effective methods of literature-based English education for nursing students in the EFL classroom are necessary.目的:看護学生対象のEFLのクラスにおいて文学を使用して英語の授業を行うことの意義や可能性について検証する.方法:初めに,英米の医療系学生に対して文学を使用した教育について歴史的に俯瞰する.次に,日本の看護学生の英語の授業において教材として考えうる文学作品の例とそれぞれのテーマの概略を述べる.結論:英米における医療系学生を対象とした文学基盤の授業に関しての多くの論文は,患者への理解や倫理的問題を取り扱うために,文学を教材とした授業の必要性を訴えている.同様に,日本の看護学生にとっても英語の授業の中で医療系学生の関心のある文学作品を題材とした授業を行うことが,外国語としての英語習得とともに,患者への共感の気持ちを引き出す契機を与えると結論付けた.学生に適切と考えられる文学作品を分類し,それぞれのテーマを設定した.今後,これらの作品を授業で生かすための授業研究の必要性を述べ結びとした.総

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Evaluation Capacity Development for Educational Development: Case Study of the Policy-level Evaluations of Japan’s ODA in the Education Sector

Education policies and systems have been experiencing increasing pressure to show greater accountability and effectiveness (OECD, 2007). In Japan, under the School Education Law and the Government Policy Evaluation Act, thousands of evaluations are conducted at various levels of education and educational administration every year. If the results are not used, there would be limited meaning in doing evaluation. In order to strengthen the use of evaluations, the quality of evaluations needs to be enhanced to meet stakeholders’ needs. The study used meta-evaluation of Japan’s educational cooperation policies to understand how evaluation results are used and what factors are hindering. Japan’s new education cooperation policy states that Japan provides support in light of “Japan’s strengths in its education system,” which have still been vaguely understood. To create evidence to clarify “Japan’s strengths in its education system” is expected role of evaluation. The conceptual framework for administering and using evaluations, as well as some thoughts about its potential uses and applications should be developed by providing research on evaluation with practical case studies to improve quality of evaluations and evaluation results

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Rerouting a major Indonesian mining road to spare nature and reduce development costs

Road-infrastructure projects are expanding rapidly worldwide while penetrating into previously undisturbed forests. In Sumatra, Indonesia, a planned 88-km-long mining road for transporting coal would imperil the Harapan Forest, the island's largest surviving tract of lowland rainforest. Such roads often lead to increased forest encroachment and illegal logging, fires, poaching, and mining. To evaluate the potential impact of the proposed road, we first manually mapped all existing roads inside and around the Harapan Forest using remote-sensing imagery. We then calculated the expected increase in forest loss from three proposed mining-road routes using a metric based on travel-time mapping. Finally, we used least-cost-path analyses to identify new routes for the road that would minimize forest disruption and road-construction costs. We found that road density inside and nearby the Harapan Forest is already 3-4 times higher than official data sources indicate. Based on our analyses, each of the three proposed mining-road routes would lead to 3,000-4,300 ha of additional forest loss from human encroachment plus another 424 ha lost from road construction itself. We propose new routes for the mining road that would result in up to 3,321 ha less forest loss with markedly lower construction costs than any other planned route. We recommend approaches such as ours, using least-cost-path analysis, to minimize the environmental and financial costs of major development projects

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Long-term follow-up of an individual with vitamin B6-dependent seizures

We report on a 31-year-old female with vitamin B6-dependent seizures whose seizure onset was in the neonatal period. Her elder brother had the same disorder and died in infancy. Administration of vitamin B6 was initiated in the postnatal period. At the age of 12 years 1 month, 2 months after withdrawal of vitamin B6, visual seizures began to occur frequently. Myoclonic seizures and occasional generalized convulsive seizures were also observed. At the same time, photoparoxysmal response and spontaneous diffuse spike–wave bursts were seen on her EEG. Myoclonic seizures were provoked by intermittent photic stimulation during the EEG. It is distinctive that visual seizures were one of the main seizure types in this patient, that her clinical course was relatively benign, and that she has normal intellectual outcome.</p