| 内容 |
These days, it is not hard for Japanese to travel abroad. In 2017, nearly 18 million Japanese traveled abroad. There are several form of travel. For example, package tours that rely on an agent, individual travel, backpacking and so on. Each form of travel has merits and demerits. This thesis focuses on backpacking. Backpacking is popular with people who do not have much money, or who do not wish to use money, such as university students. However, there are other reasons to choose backpacking. People choose backpacking because it has original merits which the other form of travel don’t have. The following is qualitative study of why Japanese choose backpacking as a form of overseas travel, and its perceive benefits. |
| 講評 |
Congratulations to the Stevenson Seminar members of the graduating class of 2019! This year’s graduation theses covered a broad range of “globalization, education and culture” issues, spanning topics of ethics in curricula, environmental awareness, fashion, sustainability, concepts of beauty, shutaisei, overseas study, and adventure. Methodologies were nearly as diverse, including the use of text (primary and secondary), qualitative interviews, questionnaires, and field observations. Befitting a university and department that value the moral dimensions of education, nearly all of the theses share an explicit or implicit focus on conscious. In addition, each paper includes an original component, demonstrating the students’ ability to work with new topics or take a new approach to a familiar theme. Also, apart from the normal challenges of researching and writing, each student used at least a few non-Japanese-language sources, and all students wrote their papers in English, evidencing both language ability and tremendous effort. The end result is a collection of papers that have contributed to the growth of the students in terms of both technical skill and intellectual development, and of which the seminar should be proud. |
