Peer Reviewed Journal via three different mandatory reviewing processes, since 2006, and, from September 2020, a fourth mandatory peer-editing has been added.
In environmental education, the importance of education to promote thinking has been repeatedly emphasized. Further, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant incident on March 11, 2011, judging the necessity of nuclear power is a controversial and important issue in Japan. Therefore, it is clear that education to promote thinking and judgment is important, especially as far as the necessity of nuclear power is concerned. In this research, I focus on the development of education to promote making judgments. I developed an easy-to-use education system, designed to enable individual citizens to judge the necessity of nuclear power in Japan. The system is designed to allow people to judge whether “YES” or “NO” regarding the using of nuclear power. First of all, a preliminary judgment is called for from each of a range of nine perspectives. Then, a comprehensive judgment is expected to be made from each of the nine perspectives. For those who cannot make judgments easily, I developed a quantitative system and made it available so that anyone can judge. Through the use of a questionnaire, I was able to make evaluations of the usefulness, appropriateness and neutrality of the education system that I had developed.
