The research question —- What do college and high school students retain and comment on when asked about school field trips? The impetus behind the work has been to understand how public memories of war and other instances of national suffering, for example colonization, are passed from the generation that experienced the actual suffering to successor generations. […]
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Schools Research — Introduction
July 3rd, 2013 · Comments Off on Schools Research — Introduction · 1. Schools Research -- Introduction
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Introduction – Surveys
June 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Introduction – Surveys · Introduction - Surveys
Surveys: In all three countries I collected responses to over 250 surveys. The collection process was not based on formal sampling techniques, thus the quantitative analysis indicates the values and attitudes of those particular people not the population as a whole. Surveys reached students at publicly funded and at privately funded institutions and at both […]
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Student Responses — educational and organizational
June 4th, 2011 · Comments Off on Student Responses — educational and organizational · Student Responses -- Educational and Organizational
The site visits and the survey findings demonstrate a similar finding in all three countries: school tours take a distinctive form from place to place. At Japanese and Korean sites, students visited in large groups 40 – 100 strong. Japanese students wore school uniforms. Classes and schools followed one another from one segment of the […]
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Student Responses — History, culture, society
June 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Student Responses — History, culture, society · Student Responses -- History
Students may have varied noticeably among the three nations in the whether or not they talked about peace and war. They were more similar in their increased connections to the history culture and society of the countries they lived in. Korean percentages should be read as approximately double the number showing in the table because […]
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Student Responses — Ecology, Environment and Adventure
May 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on Student Responses — Ecology, Environment and Adventure · Student Responses -- the Natural Environment
One of the striking features of this research was to discover how often group trips for junior high and high school age students were oriented towards experiencing the outdoors. Once again the trips took a distinctive approach in each country. In Korea, high schoolers went to Jeju Island more than to any other site. The […]
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Student responses to their travels: War and Peace
May 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Student responses to their travels: War and Peace · Student Responses -- War and Peace
The survey results indicate marked differences between the three countries in the degree to which their travels bring issues of war and peace to mind in students. In coding for whether students mentioned peace and war in their comments, I was rigorous about restricting “yes” codes to actual mentions of the two words specifically Japan: […]
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Introduction — Site visit research process
May 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Introduction — Site visit research process · Site Research Process
Observation of student groups: Each site visit lasted several hours and most sites were visited more than once. Each visit entailed observations made out in the open – at the Thousand Cranes memorial in Hiroshima for example, or at the Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC and also observations inside the buildings described as museums. The observations […]
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Destinations
May 13th, 2011 · No Comments · 3. Sites, Student Travel Experiences
Between the different countries and across class levels within each country, distinct patterns emerged from field observation and from surveys about which kinds of destinations are appropriate to each of the age groups and for each country. Surveys in Japan and Korea suggested real differences across the age groups. The largest groups of younger students went […]
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