Kyoto Women's University concludes a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Kyoto Prison. In the future, the two will aim to contribute to the local community while providing students with practical learning opportunities by promoting mutual exchange and utilization of human and intellectual resources.
The conclusion of this agreement will contribute to the development of human resources needed by society and the development of corrective administration, and at the same time, the inmates will have contact with society, which will motivate them to return to society and give them a sense of self-affirmation. The purpose is to lead to the improvement of.
As a specific initiative, Professor Nami Gahapuka of the Faculty of Developmental Education will continue to hold a course for prison officers, "Breathing to Control Self," held in June 2016.We will convey the "breathing method for preparing the mind and body" that can be used in the prison work that is carried out with a sense of tension every day.
In addition, a prison officer gave a lecture on the theme of "Thinking about Negative Revolving Doors (tentative name)" in the relay lecture of "Liberal Arts Course = Learning Kyoto (Society)" in the 2017 regional cooperation course.There is also a plan for Professor Makoto Yano's seminar student to propose a "design for children's toys" for woodwork works made at the workshop in the prison. Seminar students will participate in a correctional exhibition held at Kyoto Prison on October 2016nd and 10rd, 22, and a workshop on crafts will be held.
