Are Future School Teachers Qualified to Teach Flood Risk? An Approach from the Geography Discipline in the Context of Climate Change

Álvaro-Francisco Morote,Jorge Olcina,María Hernández

doi:10.3390/su13158560

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Jul 31, 2021
Citations: 15	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Valencia, University of Alicante

Abstract

The aims of this research, based on a case study (trainee teachers of Primary degree and Secondary Education–MAES of the University of Valencia, Spain), are to analyse the students’ memories and perceptions of their training about floods; to examine the interest in teaching these contents in Social Science and/or Geography classes; and to analyse their proposals to improve teacher training. Methodologically, a questionnaire was distributed among 204 future teachers. The results indicate that the majority, in both groups, (degree and MAES) consider themselves to have a medium level of preparedness to teach these contents to schoolchildren (value of 3): 47.0% of the degree students and 47.4% of the MAES students. In both groups, the majority (89.2% degree; 57.9% MAES) indicate that they had not received training in the university or if they had, it had been insufficient. The study reveals that both those who have received training and those who have not believe themselves to have a similar level of preparedness. As the results of this study show, there is still a lot of ground to be covered in the field of education so that it may become an essential tool to generate a society that is more resilient to climate change.

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Introduction de Moura CarvalhoIn recent decades, in the European Mediterranean region, the risk of flooding has increased due to the rise in both the exposure and vulnerability of the population [1]
This study diagnoses the preparedness of future Primary and Secondary Education teachers to teach flood risk to schoolchildren
The findings reveal that the majority of the participants in the study did not receive training on this topic during their school and university education

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In the European Mediterranean region, the risk of flooding has increased due to the rise in both the exposure and vulnerability of the population [1]. To this we should add the effects of climate change, which, according to the Intergovernmental. There has been an alteration in the seasonality of rainfall since the 1980s This process has been more acute in the Eastern half of the peninsula where there has been a decrease in rainfall in spring and an increase in the autumn months [8]. There has been an increase in the frequency of these extreme atmospheric events related to wavelike patterns of atmospheric circulation in the upper layers of the atmosphere and an increase from the 1990s of Isolated Depression at High

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