Development of the guide for hometown learning with the landscape as a starting point and its use in teacher license renewal course

Abstract

To carry out local landscape management activities for residents, it is necessary to have stakeholders who understand the value of local landscape to get involved in landscape management. Some local municipalities have developed an education guide using the local landscape as a teaching tool. The purpose of this report is to identify the present situation of development of the education guide using local landscape as a teaching tool (Actual title: the guide for hometown learning with the landscape as a starting point) produced by Nagasaki prefectural office (abbreviated as "the guide") and of implementation of the teacher license renewal course in which the draft of the guide was used and opinions about the guide from the participants were elicited. The main results are as follows. (1) The guide was developed by a committee that included members involved in educational activities using the local landscape in Nagasaki prefecture. (2) The guide was designed in a small volume so that the reader could easily understand the significance, knowledge, and skills of education using the local landscape. (3) The teacher license renewal course contributed to the acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary for education using the local landscape through independent learning.