2015年9月の記事一覧

～Used 1st year learning to deepen a recognition of the current world situation ～

The 2nd year students conducted “Trade game” by inviting lecturers to an integrated study class. “Trade Game” was intended to “show the mechanism of world trade and economy and to realize the problems and tasks (income gap between North and South, economic assistance, industrial waste and environmental destruction etc) that need to be solved”. Students were divided into groups of 5 in each class. The rules were only “No violence and no stealing”. Each group was delivered one bag. They went to sell the specified goods which they made from the contents in the bag at the market. Each group’s contents in the bag were different.

From the beginning, each group negotiated and dealt actively, words for dealing filled the classroom instantly. Some made the specified goods silently, some negotiated, and some spied on other groups. They shared their roles automatically, some groups acted just like a real nation.

Lecturers commented at the end of the class, “What is going on in this game is exactly what happens in the real world. It is important to use your imagination when you act toward it.”
Some students said after the class, “We want to continue this game more.”

How will Sendai Nika Junior High School students act in the real world? We are looking forward to their future growth.

SGH fieldwork was conducted by 6 students who selected SGH Research TaskⅡA in Thailand and Cambodia for 11days from August 1.

They conducted surveys on the subject of “water problems” relating vegetation status and cutting situation of mangroves, conditions of the land which was formally used as shrimp farms and change of local people’s lives after producing commercial crop in brackish-water region” in Ranong, south part of Thailand.

They visited Siem Reap in Cambodia and learned about “Water problems in rapid urbanized agricultural community” and “Angkor as an irrigated city” in collaboration with Sophia University and a local NGO. They also conducted interviews and water surveys with people who live in Tonle Sap Lake and in surrounding rural areas.

The 2nd Mekong River fieldwork will be conducted in December.

　　
A survey in a mangrove forest 　　　An interview with a mayor of a　　　　 Lake dwellings 
(Ranong, Thailand)　　　　　　　　village (Ranong, Thailand)　　　　　　(Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia)

　　
An interview with lake dwellers 　　　A water survey in Angkor Krau 　　　Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
(Tonle Sap Lake)　　　　　　　　 　village (Cambodia)