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Gibbs, Lisa; Block, Karen; Ireton, Greg; Taunt, Emma – Journal of International Social Studies, 2018
The limited evidence regarding disaster-related environmental education programs for children indicates that these programs can increase disaster resilience and family preparedness activities, and reduce children's fear and anxiety. However, the literature lacks qualitative studies to provide insights into children's experiences of disaster…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Environmental Education, Emergency Programs, Resilience (Psychology)
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Bosschaart, Adwin; van der Schee, Joop; Kuiper, Wilmad – Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
This study focused on designing a flood-risk education program to enhance 15-year-old students' flood-risk perception. In the flood-risk education program, learning processes were modeled in such a way that the arousal of moderate levels of fear should prompt experiential and analytical information processing. In this way, understanding of flood…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Foreign Countries, Adolescents
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Preston, John; Avery, Barry; Chakrabarty, Namita; Edmonds, Casey – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Emergency preparedness can be considered to be a form of lifelong learning and public pedagogy with implications for race equality. The paper is based on an ESRC project "Preparedness pedagogies and race: an interdisciplinary approach" considering the policy process around the construction of the "Preparing for Emergencies"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Lifelong Learning, Information Dissemination