The Effects of Health Educational Lessons using Learning Activities that Make Students Apply The Knowledge

DOI

10.2991/yishpess-cois-18.2018.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

prevention of drug abuse, role-playing

Abstract

The Japanese Education Ministry guidelines were revised in 2008 with an emphasis to elevate the thinking levels, judgment capacity and an expressive faculty. This will be passed down by the next guidelines revised in 2017. As in any health education, handling the Content of the Education Ministry guidelines on Health education and teaching methods should be devised by incorporating learning activities that make students apply acquired knowledge. As an example of the previous guideline description, the Education Ministry introduced learning activities, which taps into knowledge, creates thinking ability, a capacity for judgment and an expressive faculty. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of health educational lessons using learning activities that make students apply knowledge. The study subjects were comprised of 78 Grades 3junior high school students, which took a lesson about drug abuse prevention using role-playing as a learning activity that makes the students use the knowledge. The results indicated that students notice the importance and difficulty applying the knowledge they learnt.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Hideaki Tanimoto
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TI  - The Effects of Health Educational Lessons using Learning Activities that Make Students Apply The Knowledge
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Seminar on Health, Physical Education, and Sport Science (YISHPESS 2018) and 1st Conference on Interdisciplinary Approach in Sports (CoIS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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