The Development of Earthquake Disaster Prevention Education for Schools and its Application

Abstract

This article aims to explore disaster prevention education strategy for schools and attempts to make some implications for the applications of actual actions for disaster reduction in schools. The paper goes three stages to tackle disaster prevention education and disaster response. First, we reviewed the current status and underlying problems of disaster prevention in Korea and then conducted a case study with the Great Han‐Shin Awaji Earthquake and the Great East Japan earthquake. Finally, we drew out some implications based on the improvements in terms of disaster prevention actions taken after Japanese earthquake. The results of this case study show that disaster prevention training should be based on the education programs involving students, not learning by rote. Keywords: Japan, Disaster Prevention Education, Great Han‐Shin Awaji Earthquake, Great East Japan Earthquake