An Attempt about the Active Learning Class "Nursing Care": KUSEP Program for the Study of Japanese Culture and Society "Nursing Care to Elderly People in Japan"

本稿では日本文化・社会学習プログラムの授業科目として，2015年度秋学期より開講されている「日本における介護福祉の現状」について，これまで三学期間にわたり実施してきた授業の内容と変遷を報告している。この授業では，講義として日本の介護福祉の現状を学ぶとともに，留学生が実際に介護福祉施設を訪れ，高齢者と触れ合ったり現場の状況を肌で感じたりすることを目的としている。日本の高齢者と交流することは，留学生にとって貴重な体験であり，学習後に学生が提出する感想文の内容から，今後の課題についても述べている。The number of international students at Kanazawa University is increasing every year, and the International Student Center holds many active learning classes for various themes of Japanese culture and society. The author has experience to work in the field of nursing care, therefore he started the active learning class "Nursing Care to Elderly People in Japan" in Autumn Semester 2015. At the university, the international students rarely have the opportunity to come in contact with elderly Japanese people, therefore this class gives them a good chance to talk to and communicate with old people in Japanese, which may be something different from the language they read in their textbooks. And they also have the chance to learn about nursing care systems for aged people, and about the problems of an aging society. In this class, most of the international students are from China and Southeast Asian countries. In general, these students have no clear idea about these serious problems, and so it is very important for them to realize these problems. In this paper the author describes the outline of the class for three semesters, from Autumn Semester 2015 to Autumn Semester 2016, and introduces the international students\u27essays about their experiences at the Nursing Care Facilities, to make clear the significance and improvement points of this class