Project title
Basic research of space and astronomy education in general including tourism
Research Unit
Primary investigator
Co investigators
AKIYAMA Hiroaki, KURODA Arisa, OKYUDO Masami, ONO Ayako, YOSHIZUMI Chiaki
Project period
2020/5/18 ～ 2021/3/31
Project summary
We study basic space-tourism and astro-tourism through investigating the policy of space development and space travel, the astro-tourism developing around the world, and the space education and astro-education which are the basis of above activity. We also study natural phenomena including solar eclipses and aurorae and our mother planet Earth as important contents of ground-based space- and astro-tourism.
Activity reports
Journal article
- Lieza Crisostomo, Sachiyo Uenoyama, Kanae Sagisaka, Akihiko Tomita “Comparison of Astronomy School Education Curricula Between Philippines and Japan” Latin-American Journal of Astronomy Education (Revista Latino-Americana de Educação em Astronomia / Revista Latinoamericana de Educación en Astronomía), No. 29, 87-102 (2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.37156/RELEA/2020.29.087（peer review）
Conference presentations
- Akihiko Tomita, Sachiyo Uenoyama, Rosa M. Ros, Beatriz García “Overcoming Borders Among Us: NASE, the Teacher-training Program” Global Hands-On Universe Conference 2020 (session 15), 2020.08.29, Online
- Akihiko Tomita “Astronomical Education Research Papers in Japan: the Never-changing and the Ever-changing, and the Challenge of Returning the Research Results to Teachers” The Second Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education (Session 5: Astronomy education around the world), 2020.10.08, Online
- Akihiko Tomita, Masami Okyudo, Hiroaki Akiyama “Basic Research of Space and Astronomy Education in General Including Tourism” CTR Research Forum 2020, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, 2020.11.13, Online
- Akihiko Tomita, Fumihito Kubo, Masashi Maeda, Rosa Doran “Integrated Active Learning Utilizing the Stories of Tomorrow at Elementary School in Japan” IAU Symposium 367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data: The first steps on the IAU 2020-2030 Strategic Plan (Session 5: Innovation in Education), 2020.12.10, Online
