A study on changes in attitudes towards settling in Toyama through education from the perspective of fostering regional leaders at University of Toyama.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to consider how to increase students’ inclination of regional settlement, based on the statistical analysis of surveys took in the community-oriented courses, called COC+ courses, implemented in 2018 at University of Toyama. We used a questionnaire survey method and took questionnaires to students in COC+ courses of three course-groups, “region-oriented course-group”, “regional PBL course-group” and “region-related course-group”, newly set up through the implementation of COC+ project. Despite our intentions, the results of this survey suggest that the regional PBL courses are likely to reduce the students’ inclination of regional settlement. Region-oriented courses are also, with regret, likely to have no effect on the inclination. The analysis of the individual courses of the region-oriented course-group shows that to increase students’ inclination of regional settlement, it must be effective to address the regional problems and their solutions, and embed a lot of opportunities for students to check their own lifestyles in courses.