Development and a practical study of disaster safety education model based on regional learning of natural and social environment for school children

- An application to Nagamachi area in Sendai City -

Abstract

Recently, social demands of disaster safety education have become diversified. A creation of a new disaster safety education model with not only educative effects for school children but also reaching effects for household and regional community has begun to be expected.
In this paper, a disaster safety education model based on regional learning of natural and social environments for school children is proposed from a standpoint as disaster scientific researcher. The proposal model is composed framework of lifelong study as educational community, information common platform as the basis of disaster prevention information, urban walking workshop as basic educational program and regional disaster prevention monitoring function to improve the vulnerability for earthquake disaster.
The validity of the concept and possibility of the expansion of the proposal model was described through a practical study. We postulate that scientific researchers should contribute to disaster safety education fields by the collaboration with safety educational researchers and teachers for development of further advanded educational programs.