Development of an educational model on salt restriction applying a scenario study (PBL method)

—Part 1: The evaluation of an teaching-learning method—

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop the new educational model applying scenario study (PBL method) in public health education, and to investigate the learning process of the participants into the salt restriction class held in I village in Aomori Prefecture.
Subjects are 30 people in the class above mentioned. Subjects' statements were recorded by the way of participant observation. Their learning processes were analyzed qualitatively.
As a result of the analysis on the learning processes in each stages, learning processes could be divided into following types: the abstraction of some problems which a character in the scenario has, the abstraction of common points between scenario and subjects themselvs, the creation of some solution to the problems, subjects' concrete targets in daily life from now, the self-evaluation and the reflection about the degree of targets' achievement, some ideas through the whole classes, and so on.
As a conclusion, through this scenario study (PBL method), self-directed learning process by the participants was observed by us the researchers. As capital result, in the learning process, based on the scenario, and also, under the support by tutor, participants could call their own enthusiasm to try the salt restriction. Through this method, the spirit of self-directed learning and the ability of problem solving were cultivated into each participant.