著者

城下 英行 河田 惠昭

出版者

日本自然災害学会

雑誌

自然災害科学 (ISSN:02866021)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, no.1, pp.67-80, 2009-05-31

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Disaster education is one of the most important components for building a resilient society. School disaster education especially has an effect on spreading awareness and knowledge of disasters widely. In the past decade, the world has faced many natural and human made disasters. People's awareness of disaster impacts is becoming one of the driving forces for disaster education. However, disaster education should not be based only on disaster impacts. This is because the earth repeats a cycle of active and inactive periods. Hence, consensus between students, teachers and parents is necessary to realize sustainable disaster education in schools regardless of the occurrence of disasters. A questionnaire survey for junior and senior high school students in Wakayama prefecture, Japan was conducted on the first and second of November, 2006. The purpose of this survey was to inquire into students' attitude toward disaster learning in schools in the context of the educational curriculum. In order to keep reliability of this paper, 204 answers from junior high school students in Hirogawa town were selected for this paper from all answers. The result of analysing statistical data revealed several facts. Firstly, all of students have experiences of disaster education in schools and these are thought of as useful for their future life. Secondly, more than 90% of students learn about disasters in the integrated study time slots. Finally, through the comparison between the students who evaluate previous disaster education positively and the students who do not evaluate previous disaster education positively, the former students evaluate future disaster education in schools more positively than the latter students. Improving disaster education based on the people's attitude is one of the most important factors needed to build sustainable school disaster education in Japan.