2020.12.10
Associate Professor Satoko Okie of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies has received the Excellent Practice Award from the Japan Society of Safety Education.
The Japan Society of Safety Education is an academic society dedicated to the research, dissemination, and promotion of safety education for schools, children, the elderly, and others, as well as to the advancement of research in the field of safety education studies. The Excellent Practice Award is selected from among the research papers published in its journal, "Safety Education Study," recognizing particularly outstanding practical research.
This time, Associate Professor Okie's paper, "Development of a 'Four-Panel Manga Teaching Material' for Evacuation Shelter Management Simulation," published in Volume 19 (combined issue) of "Safety Education Study" on March 31, 2020, was highly evaluated, leading to her receiving the award.
Comment from Associate Professor Satoko Okie
This award recognizes a part of the research undertaken by my co-author, Aya Saito (graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies in 2015 and completed her master's degree at the Graduate School of Media and Governance in 2017) for her graduation and master's theses, which we have revised and compiled. In that sense, most of the credit goes to her. Ms. Saito was also very pleased with this award.
I am sincerely grateful to the schools that allowed us to conduct our practical research. Although they are referred to as "Junior High School A," "Junior High School B," and so on in the paper, we were able to analyze valuable data from these participating schools. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude.
Disaster prevention education has advanced through many sacrifices. In that sense, there are many victims with whom we can no longer speak. While I cannot directly express my gratitude to the victims of past natural disasters, I will fulfill this sentiment by giving back to society.