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Education is one of the best media to spread preparedness and awareness among communities. Disaster education is one of the effective tools to save lives. Children are more receptive compared to adults and can influence their peers and parents. The school disaster education creates awareness among children, teachers and non-teaching staffs. The school curriculum is a good source to spread information about disasters. The risk and hazard education at school will enable the children to have accurate perception of risk and better understanding of protective measures. A proverb saying “educating a child is educating a family” brings about the shift from disaster preparedness approach to disaster resilience approach. Disaster resilience education (DRE) is an educational learning about natural hazards, risk in local environment and actions to protect the communities before, during and after any disaster or emergency situations. Disaster resilience education provides the young people and their families with various information such as increased awareness about local hazards and disaster risks, increased household preparedness and planning, reduced hazards-related fears and worries and increased capacities for effective emergency response. It also helps in personal development by increasing confidence and communication skills. Thus, the children and youth become the agent of change in their communities and promote disaster risk reduction as well as resilience.
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Topno, P.N. (2021). Building Disaster Resilience Through Primary and Higher Education. In: Eslamian, S., Eslamian, F. (eds) Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61278-8_9
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