Disaster Prevention Inquiry Initiatives Led by High School Students Living in the Community

- A grand design for co-creation of the Narita region that transcends the boundaries of school and grade level and is promoted by the students themselves -

Abstract

This paper proposes a Narita Regional Co-creation Grand Design in which a high school student leader of a junior orchestra in Narita City, Chiba Prefecture, who plays violin, established a regional inquiry team within the orchestra to address issues related to disaster education in the region, and worked with fellow elementary, junior high, and high school students to solve these issues. The team consisted of five exploratory groups that collaborated with local experts, and the students themselves took the lead in solving local disaster prevention and disaster medicine issues in the Narita area over the past four years.