Abstract
Forests have been actively utilized for education. However, there have been no systematic or comprehensive review of forest education studies published in Japan, Oishi and Inoue (2014) selected 448 education-related studies from the bulletins published by the Japanese Forest Society and affiliated and related associations and thoroughly reviewed them in the category "specialized education and its educational sites such as forests and related exhibiting facilities." This paper further reviewed these studies on themes not covered by our previous report, including "educational ideas," "school education," "social education," " learners," "programs," and "leaders." Our work revealed a general history of forestry education studies: various educational ideas were proposed; targets on different stages of school education were considered; various social education entities were studied; and backgrounds of educational targets and effects of educational activities were examined. This paper also analyzes and defines several terms used in forestry education studies and presents a general background of the field.
