Prof. Umemura, on July 22, offered us an introductary lecture about Project Cycle Management (PCM). The lecture included history of PCM, conceptual framework, characteristics of PCM and procedure of PCM.
The lecture provided a good opportunity for our participants to reconsidered their research questions of each working group by a logical thinking.
On July 15, Prof. Okada and Prof. Liu shared their research experiences and observation of previous OFW with participants of OFW preliminary seminar. Based on personal experiences, two speakers talked about how to deal with hypothesis, how to balance priority and keep flexible, ethical issues, how to balance roles as researcher and participant in fieldwork, practical skills for fieldwork…
We hope the talk was helpful for participants’ preparation for the forthcoming fieldwork in September.
“Today’s visit to Odai town is very helpful for us to further understand the situation of Odai town and our design of our survey in October…” This is an exciting feedback from one of DFW2015 participants after the pilot survey in Odai town on July 10, 2015.
Different from previous years, in order to provide participants an opportunity to know the field before they start their fieldwork, DFW committee arranged this visit for DFW2015.
Participants not only got a chance to practice their skills of conducting interview and collecting information but also observe the real situation of Odai town by themselves.
We hope this arrangement was helpful for them to further prepare their research plan and design.
On July 3, we were pleased to invite Dr. Hitoshi Kikuchi from Meitesu Hospital Vaccinations Center to give participants of OFW2015 a lecture about infectious disease in the world and preventation. Dr. Kikuchi told us a lot of knowledge about disease and the preventation, particularly for the fieldwork in the developing countries. His detailed explanation was quite helpful for our preparation for OFW2015 fieldwork in the Philippines.
On June 25, DFW2015 program held presentations about tentative research proposals by each group. Presenters explained their research topics, objectives and research methods. They also received comments and advises from Mr. Tolu Sawahata, Prof. Usami, Prof. Yamashita and Prof. Kusaka. After revising their research plan based on these comments, three groups will conduct their pre-survey in Odai town on July 10.
After the 1st stage of preliminary seminars on introduction to the Philippines, we entered into the 2nd stage of this year’s OFW preliminary seminar. It started with lectures on how to write research proposal by Prof. Peddie, Mr. Takahiro Kiyohara and Ms. BALCITA Glo Ann Nazareno.
Prof. Peddie provided us a comprehensive lecture about how to write research proposal. Besides introducing the basic structure of a proposal, he also used examples to give detailed explanation of the important components of a research proposal.
As a new part of OFW preliminary seminars, we also invited Mr. Kiyohara and Ms. Glo to share their experiences in OFW last year. I believe their experiences are quite helpful for our participants to prepare their own fieldwork in Coron.
From today, there is almost a month for our participants to prepare for their proposals.
Look forward to their presentation ! Good luck!
On June 17, Dr. Aser provided us his 3rd lecture for OFW2015 preliminary seminars.
As an expert in the field of goverance, Dr. Aser shared his framework and understanding about goverance in general and its context in the Philippines. His summary of dynamic views of governance is very helpful for the audience to understand how to understand and consider governance in the veiws of self, community, power and process.
OFW2015 Preliminary seminars just finished the 1st stage of introducing the Philippines to our participants. From next week, the seminars will invite speakers to introduce more details about research skills. Hope these will be helpful for our participants.
After two month lectures about general knowledge about rural development in Japan, current situation in Odai Town and skills for fieldwork, from June, our three working groups started their preparation for making group research proposals. By using the 1st period of Monday and Friday, participants are working together actively. Group advisors are also taking part in group meetings or discussions. Look forward to the research proposal presentations on June 26.
Today, Prof. Kusaka provided an intensive, critical and comparative interpreation about political history of the Philippines. He reviewed the colonial experiences, independent revolution and democracy development in the Philippines. The comparative point of view on the continuties and differences of Filipino’s identities and their attitude towards history and their experiences enhanceed our understanding of the country and people.
As 2nd lecture about Odai Town, on June 5, our participants enjoyed lecture by Mr. Nishide from Odai Town local government for DFW2015. This lecture was about the depopulation of Odai Town and their solutions and strategies for solving the problem.
Participants raised many questions to Mr. Nishide in order to further understand the situation in Odai town. It seems they have started recognizing their own interest in Odai town and current work is to further narrow down their focus and move forward to structure the research. Look forward to their proposal presentation in the end of June.
