Educational Research on Forests and Wood : Achievements and Prospects

摘要

Wood Education including school education, professional development and life-long learning, is a key to the realization of sustainable utilization of forest resources. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss current issues of wood education and educational researches in the Japan Wood Research Society (JWRS). This paper also shows required frameworks of wood education for enhanced practice, and research of wood education for the next generation. Based on science and technology governance study, 1) consensus-building of the goal of education, 2) clarification of the scope and the sequence of the education, 3) accumulation of practical data and 4) promotion of practice and research in JWRS were proposed.