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Kitagawa, Kaori – Education Sciences, 2021
'Disaster education' has been studied in various disciplines such as disaster risk management and environmental studies. However, disaster education is a relatively 'new enquiry' in the field of education. Particularly, the literature that conceptualises 'disaster education' in education is minimal. This paper aims to fill this gap by synthesising…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Crisis Management, Risk Management
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Kitagawa, Kaori – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
Both "disaster preparedness" and "public pedagogy" have been broadly defined and diversely utilised. Preparedness has been dealt with in disciplines such as civil engineering, the sociology of disasters, public health and psychology, rather than education. Recently, inquiries into the learning and teaching of preparedness have…
Descriptors: Public Education, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Political Issues
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Kitagawa, Kaori – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
This paper contributes to the conceptual and empirical development of 'preparedness pedagogy'. Preparedness involves learning, thus disaster risk reduction (DRR) should be discussed more in the field of education, particularly its sub-discipline of public pedagogy. Disaster risk reduction education should have an element of "a pedagogy in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Teaching Methods, Natural Disasters, Risk
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Kitagawa, Kaori – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
Preparedness for disaster scenarios is progressively becoming an educational agenda for governments because of diversifying risks and threats worldwide. In disaster-prone Japan, disaster preparedness has been a prioritised national agenda, and preparedness education has been undertaken in both formal schooling and lifelong learning settings. This…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Political Issues, Public Policy
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Kitagawa, Kaori – History of Education, 2015
This article aims to describe post-war continuity and change in disaster education in Japan. Preparedness for natural disasters has been a continuous agenda in Japan for geographical and meteorological reasons, and disaster education has been practised in both formal and informal settings. Post-war disaster management and education have taken a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Educational Change
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Preston, John; Chadderton, Charlotte; Kitagawa, Kaori – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
The term "state of exception" has been used by Italian political theorist Giorgio Agamben to explain the ways in which emergencies, crises and disasters are used by governments to suspend legal processes. In this paper, we innovatively apply Agamben's theory to the way in which countries prepare and educate the population for various…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Theories, Emergency Programs, Governance