Disaster relief, Disaster risk, Disaster management, Community-based practices 

Disaster education is a much-discussed topic in risk reduction literatures.

Education itself is always welcomed, and there have been different frame-
works and conventions on education, whether it is a right-based approach

or a part of development perspective or an environmental issue. Disaster
education is considered as a crosscutting issue, which needs to be incorporated
in different existing educational frameworks. As obvious, disaster education
deals with practical matters, and cannot be a stand-alone school or university
curriculum. There needs to be a good balance between the curriculum, and

extra-curriculum activities, and in-school, outside-school activities. Outside-
school activities can be of different types, in family and in community.
Therefore, the disaster education is considered to link the school, family, and
education.
One of the most important aspects of disaster education is its process,
approaches, and tools. The process and approaches need to be innovative, in
most cases student led, and tools need to link the theory to practice. Some of
the tools are lecture or presentation oriented, but some tools are more linked
to observations or experiential learning. Educational governance or policy
is an important issue which makes the key pillar of the sustainability in the
educational sector. The higher education is an important and crucial issue,
which often gets less priority, but builds the core of the professionals and
future generations in the respective field. With these concepts and ideas,
this book consists of eight chapters which addressed some of the above
issues through illustrative examples. It is difficult to measure the impacts of
education, since it is a long-term investment. A modest attempt is done to
understand the impacts of some of the educational approaches and tools like
neighborhood watching.
Through our own education and research experiences, we strongly felt
the need of a consolidated compilation on disaster education, the current
literature on which is rather scattered and diverse. This book is the modest
attempt to do so. Disaster education is an evolving subject. New ideas, methods, and tools will be generated over time. We hope that this book will
be a good trigger to the future research in the subject. We will be delighted if
the readers consider the book useful. 

List of Contributors vii
List of Editors ix
Brief Introduction to the Series xi
Brief Introduction to the Volume xiii
Preface xv
Chapter 1 Disaster Education: An Introduction
Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, Qi Ru Gwee and
Koichi Shiwaku

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Chapter 2 Disaster Education Policy: Current and Future
Qi Ru Gwee, Rajib Shaw and Yukiko Takeuchi 23
Chapter 3 Roles of School in Disaster Education
Koichi Shiwaku and Glenn Fernandez 45
Chapter 4 Roles of Family and Community in Disaster
Education
Yukiko Takeuchi, Farah Mulyasari and Rajib Shaw 77
Chapter 5 Essentials of Higher Education in Disaster Risk
Reduction: Prospects and Challenges
Rajib Shaw, Fuad Mallick and Yukiko Takeuchi 95
Chapter 6 Innovative Approaches in Disaster Education
Koichi Shiwaku and Glenn Fernandez 115
Chapter 7 Implementation Tools for Disaster Education
Farah Mulyasari, Yukiko Takeuchi and Rajib Shaw 137
Chapter 8 ‘‘Tsunagaru’’: The Essence of Disaster Education
Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi and Koichi Shiwaku 153 

Note: Includes references.