Dr Kaori Kitagawa joins us from Japan to discuss her research area of community learning for disaster preparedness. At present, the involvement of the field of education has been limited in developing policy and practice of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and the need to build this into ‘everyday preparedness’.
The role of public pedagogy perspectives is helpful, according to Dr Kitagawa. Integrating communities into implementing DRR processes is important, with Dr Kitagawa working with Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute to investigate participatory approaches.
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