July 20, 2016
In the last session of DFW2016 Preparatory Sessions, we were pleased to have Dr. Masao Takano from Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University to talk about Satoyama system and its change with people in Japan. After the seesion, participants raised many questions to Prof. Takano. We hope this session could help our students further understand the situation of rural Japan.
July 20, 2016
Time flies. Finally we were very pleased to invite Prof. Hoshino and Prof. Sakai as guest speakers to talk about risk management as the last session of OFW2016 preparatory session. Dr. Aser and Prof. Okada also gave instruction about risk management and health maintenance in this session.
July 13, 2016
In today’s seminar, we are pleased to invite two speakers to introduce survey method based on their own experiences. Prof. Okada briefly introduced us the bacis thinking and logic of quantitative research in the first half of the seminar. In the second half, we had Mr. Ben Huffman, D2 students in DICOS, to share his research experience in conducting quantitative survey and fieldworks in the Philippines and Cambodia.
Even this is no team which plans to conduct quantitative suvery in OFW or DFW, we hope our participants can at least get some ideas about quantitative research and the methods. For sure, it is useful and beneficial for all!
July 8, 2016
By taking almost two hours train and bus, DFW2016 team visited Asuke-cho. And the team also conducted their pre-survey in Oiden Sanson Center. The visit to old street area of Asuke enhanced participants’ understanding of the community. And the lecture and interview in the Center helped our students deepen their understanding of the topics they have concerns. The insights of our informants at the Center will definitely help us to further improve our reserach design for the fieldwork in October.
Today, we are very pleased to invite Prof. Chiho Ogaya to give us a lecture about overseas migration from the Philippines and Feminization of the international migration in the Philippines. Prof. Ogaya introduced overview of overseas migration from the Philippines, government policy and objecitves. She also shared the disparity of females in the Philippines society and care chain at global level and within the Philippines. In the end of the lecture, Prof. Ogaya raised some topics which can be further explored in the future.
Overeseas migration is one of the most important issues in the Philippines. I hope our participants got some hints for their own studies in OFW2016.
As part of curriculum reform of OFW and DFW program, we introduced a couple of joint sessions about skills for fieldwork survey since last year. We tried to enrich contents and activities of preparatory sessions of OFW2015 and DFW2015.
In the session of June 29, Prof. Akiko Ueda organized a special session about how to conduct interview for participants of both OFW and DFW program. The session included lecture, group work, demonstration and feedback. With 3 hours lecture, participants learnd basic concept, skills and know-how about how to conduct interivew. This session helped our participants to understand the difficulties of conducting interviews.
Our thankness goes to TAs of both program and Prof. Isamu Okada, Prof. Aser Javier, Prof. Wataru Kusaka and Prof. Yuki Shimazu.
June 22
DFW working groups had their mid-term presentation about progress of their research plan for their fieldwork in Toyota City in October. Based on comments and feedback from seminar in last week, our partcipants worked hard to improve their research designs.
Well done! DFW working groups!
June 23
Today, we inivited Prof. Kenichi Nishimura from Osaka University to give us a lecture about mayors’ attributes and performance of local governments in the Philippines. Prof. Nishimura introduced his recent research project which aims at exploring the relation between Mayors’ attributes and mayors’ political behaviors as well as performance of local government units (LGUs) in the Philippines. This lecture not only provided us knowledge about the relation between Mayors’ characteristices but also gave us hints about what is good governance in the context of the Philippines. Indicators or variables shown is the lecture were very useful for our participants to design their own research.
We were very pleased to have two joint sessions for both OFW and DFW this week.
June 20 Research Ethics
Prof. Yoshiaki Nishikawa gave us his 2nd lecture about survey ethics for participants of both OFW and DFW. Prof. Nishikawa provided his lecture by utilizing fieldwork experience of himself and his student to explain ethical issues in the fieldworks. The lecture was very helpful for both OFW, DFW and individual works of our participants in the future. It also raised many questions for researchers attending the lecture.
June 22 Research Proposal
Prof. Frank Peddie, as a super supporter of OFW program since last year, provided us a lecture about how to prepare and write a research proposal. Based on his exmperience of last two years’ OFW and DFW, Prof. Peddie introduced skills of writing research proposal as a team. The lecture is also uesful for our participants who are supposed to conduct their own individual works next year.
June 15, 2016
In the 7th preparatory seminar of DFW2016, we were pleased to invite Mr. Tatsuyoshi Suzuki to join our group presentation session. This session aimed to have our participants to clearly present their research interests and reasons for choosing their topics. Meanwhile, we planned to invite Mr. Suzuki to give comments and raise questions about their presentation and reserch topics to our participants. Mr. Suzuki patiently listened to three presentations, gave comments, and exchanged ideas regaridng the research topics and the feasibilities. Based on feedback from Mr. Suzuki, our groups will reconsider their research topics and improve their research designs.
