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Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
The “Creative Heath” project, a participatory school activity to foster community resilience, was implemented in Fukushima, Japan, and children’s experiences of the project were assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The project consists of three workshops: BODY, FOOD, and ACT, with activit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35329108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063417 |
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author | Goto, Aya Lloyd Williams, Alison Okabe, Satoko Koyama, Yohei Koriyama, Chihaya Murakami, Michio Yui, Yumiya Nollet, Kenneth E. |
author_facet | Goto, Aya Lloyd Williams, Alison Okabe, Satoko Koyama, Yohei Koriyama, Chihaya Murakami, Michio Yui, Yumiya Nollet, Kenneth E. |
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description | The “Creative Heath” project, a participatory school activity to foster community resilience, was implemented in Fukushima, Japan, and children’s experiences of the project were assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The project consists of three workshops: BODY, FOOD, and ACT, with activities to facilitate students’ scientific and creative thinking, working in teams, presenting, and expressing their opinions. The first two schools participated with 105 students aged 9–11 years old. Before and after each workshop, students were given questionnaires to rate their satisfaction with their own health (BODY), local foods (FOOD), and the community at large (ACT) on a five-level scale, with space to add free comments. Ratings for BODY and FOOD changed significantly, and the proportion of students who increased their rating of an evaluation indicator after each workshop was 25% for BODY, 28% for FOOD, and 25% for ACT. Text analysis of free comments showed that students in the “increased” group appreciated presenting, measuring, learning connections between nutrition and health, and working collaboratively with peers. Children perceived their health and the foods in their community more positively after participating. Moreover, the Creative Health project could be a way to enhance children’s creativity and autonomy as agents of change in the community. |
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spelling | pubmed-89559692022-03-26 Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Goto, Aya Lloyd Williams, Alison Okabe, Satoko Koyama, Yohei Koriyama, Chihaya Murakami, Michio Yui, Yumiya Nollet, Kenneth E. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The “Creative Heath” project, a participatory school activity to foster community resilience, was implemented in Fukushima, Japan, and children’s experiences of the project were assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The project consists of three workshops: BODY, FOOD, and ACT, with activities to facilitate students’ scientific and creative thinking, working in teams, presenting, and expressing their opinions. The first two schools participated with 105 students aged 9–11 years old. Before and after each workshop, students were given questionnaires to rate their satisfaction with their own health (BODY), local foods (FOOD), and the community at large (ACT) on a five-level scale, with space to add free comments. Ratings for BODY and FOOD changed significantly, and the proportion of students who increased their rating of an evaluation indicator after each workshop was 25% for BODY, 28% for FOOD, and 25% for ACT. Text analysis of free comments showed that students in the “increased” group appreciated presenting, measuring, learning connections between nutrition and health, and working collaboratively with peers. Children perceived their health and the foods in their community more positively after participating. Moreover, the Creative Health project could be a way to enhance children’s creativity and autonomy as agents of change in the community. MDPI 2022-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8955969/ /pubmed/35329108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063417 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Goto, Aya Lloyd Williams, Alison Okabe, Satoko Koyama, Yohei Koriyama, Chihaya Murakami, Michio Yui, Yumiya Nollet, Kenneth E. Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |
title | Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |
title_full | Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |
title_fullStr | Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |
title_full_unstemmed | Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |
title_short | Empowering Children as Agents of Change to Foster Resilience in Community: Implementing “Creative Health” in Primary Schools after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |
title_sort | empowering children as agents of change to foster resilience in community: implementing “creative health” in primary schools after the fukushima nuclear disaster |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35329108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063417 |
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