2017 Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 87-93
This study aimed to assess what children learned from the “Succession of Life” health education sessions taught by midwives in the Great East Japan Earthquake. The study analyzed the essays written by children who attended the sessions, identifying 13 subcategories of learning, which were grouped into 6 categories. These 6 categories are “acquisition of knowledge about the process from fertilization to birth,” “increased appreciation for continuity of life,” “strong gratitude for mothers who bore and raised children, and people around them,” “acquisition of values that honor life,” “nurturing of maternal sense, leading to imagination of one’s future self,” and “awareness of physical and mental changes in growing to adulthood.” Among them, “acquisition of values that honor life” and “imagination of one’s future self, based on nurturing of maternal sense” were categories that had not been represented in essays prior to the earthquake.
