Improving university students' awareness of disaster prevention by the game creation referring to the local damage.

Abstract

This study used an action research approach to examine whether the creation of educational materials reflecting local disaster events and disaster prevention/mitigation workshops would raise the disaster awareness of the students who participated in the workshops. The results are as follows: 1 Creating disaster prevention teaching materials that reflect local disaster events increases the reality of disaster prevention and raises awareness of disaster prevention. 2 Students and faculty members can work together in disaster education, leading to mutual disaster awareness building. 3 It will lead to sustained voluntary disaster prevention and mitigation activities and the production of human resources. In the future, as a strategy for human resource development for disaster reduction through collaboration between faculty and students, action research is a method that can be expected to produce human resources for disaster reduction, such as disaster volunteer workers.