Cross-Cultural Homestay and Challenges to Accept Foreign Settlements in Rural Areas of Japanese Biosphere Reserves; Case of Shiramine Village in Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve

We have conducted the Winter and Summer Homestay activities for foreign students inside the rural areas of Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve, to evaluate how well local villagers were ready to accept foreigners in their communities. We found a big issue, as no locals were willing to accept students for long homestay. Among the tentative list of 15, only 6 host houses with 18 family members agreed to accept students. We have found that before the homestay activities all villagers were very concerned about the foreigners’ behavior and felt very alerted, but after the homestay program, most of them replied (86%) that they were less concerned, and homestay helped them to raise awareness towards foreigners’ behaviors. We have found that villagers are afraid of foreigners’ behavior more and because for many years the region was isolated from foreigners’ influx, some non-verbal communication can be mistakenly interpreted like “inappropriate” or “rude” actions. This kind of homestay program, was conducted for the first time in the rural area of Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve, and we found that real-life experience with foreigners as homestay programs reduced the sense of alertness and raise the awareness towards the foreigners’ behavior

Practical Report

I.Brief Description of the Kanazawa City II.Sustainable Sectors of the City and SDGs III.Training Course Schedule IV.Students Feedbacks and Report

Sustainable Development Goals learning from Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve

Kanazawa University International Student Cente

Curriculum Report BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY

Kanazawa University International Student Cente

留学生対象のフィールドワーク教育プログラムの開発: 金沢の生物文化多様性の認識向上に向けて

本報告では，持続可能な地域の発展に貢献するための，留学生向けのフィールドワーク教育プログラムの開発について予備的な検討を行った結果を紹介する。 フィールドワークとして金沢市内の山間地， 川沿い， 沿岸の3つのコースを設定し， 計10名の留学生が参加した。 留学生は， 地域住民と交流し， 伝統的な文化や身近な自然との関わりについて実地学習し， 出身地との比較や現実の社会的な課題に関するレポー トを提出した。 その結果， 留学生からのフィ ー ドバックや課題解決のための提案について共通性が確認された。 しかし， 出身地との比較だけでは， 地域の自然と文化に対する認識力を向上させるには限界があり， さらなる手法の探求が求められる

持続可能な開発目標を教育実践に導入；金沢市から学んだチャレンジとチャンス

We created the training course towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Kanazawa City, and observed the challenges and opportunities of SDGs in the practice. Field destinations were divided into water, energy, agricultural, fishery, and forestry sectors. Fieldwork showed the strong interconnection between each sector and their sustainable cooperation was clearly observed. However, we have faced several challenges and questions while conducting the course. For example, not all SDGs were related and appropriate to the region, as well as inability to encompass all the SDGs in one course, and also whether the sustainable city model of Kanazawa City can be implemented in developing countries. To address these questions, in our future studies we are going to develop an integrated educational framework towards SDGs.この研究では，金沢市で持続可能な開発目標(SDGs)に向けて集中コースを作成した。市の環境・社会経済分野を視察することにより，この目標の課題をフィールドワークで実地学習した。フィールドの目的地は，水，エネルギー，農業，林業，漁業，工芸と教育分野に分かれている。各分野は強い相対的な関連性を示し，持続可能な協力が明確になった。しかし，コースを作成する際，次のような課題と直面した；すべてのSDGsは地域に適切ではないこと，また各SDGsは相対的に関連し，個別な目標として考えられない。金沢市から学んだ持続可能な教育モデルは教育実習や途上国の教育モデルとして採用できるかなどを次の研究で調査する予定である

Saccadic shortening and cerebral hemodynamics during neck flexion and vibrational stimulation on neck extensor muscles.

13301甲3933号博士（医学）金沢大学博士論文要旨Abstract 以下に掲載：Health and Behavior Sciences 11(2) pp.73-80 2013. The Japanese Society of Health and Behavior Sciences. 共著者：Aida Mammadova, Katsuo Fujiwar