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Preston, John; Chadderton, Charlotte; Kitagawa, Kaori; Edmonds, Casey – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
Natural disasters are frequently exacerbated by anthropogenic mechanisms and have social and political consequences for communities. The role of community learning in disasters is seen to be increasingly important. However, the ways in which such learning unfolds in a disaster can differ substantially from case to case. This article uses a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecology, Models, Community Education
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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