In cooperation with local museums, this program uses both field experience and participative learning to teach graduate students, undergraduate students and the general public about the natural history of the region.
At the Graduate School of Letters in 2004, a general-education field experience entitled "Let's Search Ruins" was carried out at the Shiretoko laboratory. Archaeology, geography and conservation-ecology and museum-management studies have been conducted in eastern Hokkaido focusing mainly on the Shiretoko area. Also, students organized an exhibition that included the production, exhibition and musical performance of the "mukkuri" and "tonkori" (traditional musical instruments of the Ainu people), which proved to be a model for regional cooperation by a university museum.
Based on these results, the museum in eastern Hokkaido will serve as nuclei in this challenge, where students can actively participate in fieldwork linked to museum exhibitions, and the association between student instruction and lifelong learning by the general public can be maintained. |
