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Zela Septikasari; Heri Retnawati; Insih Wilujeng; Rajib Shaw; Irvan Budhi Handaka – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This research was conducted to analyze integration disaster education strategies in elementary schools located in disaster-prone areas. This research is qualitative research using descriptive design. This research used interview instrument in data collection. The respondents were 23 elementary school teachers in Sleman Regency, Special Region of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Natural Disasters, Elementary School Teachers, Emergency Programs
Clarissa E. Henry – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over the last 10 years, institutes of higher learning (IHLs) in the southeastern United States have endured natural disasters that have caused flooding, water, and wind damage and resulted in student evacuations, class disruptions, and building damage. IHLs are further challenged with resuming campus operations despite the emotional impact…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Higher Education, Campuses, College Administration
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Abernathy, Jacqueline H. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
This study evaluates faculty efforts to accommodate graduate students in the Tarleton State University Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Criminal Justice programs called away from classes in the first weeks of the 2017 academic year as disaster responders called into duty by Hurricane Harvey. The evaluation employed a theoretical…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Public Service Occupations
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Rogayan, Danilo V., Jr.; Dollete, Lea F. – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2020
This cross-sectional descriptive survey research determines the extent of disaster awareness and preparedness of the barrio or barangay community from the five southern municipalities of Zambales, Philippines. A total of 480 residents responded to the study. Results revealed that a majority of respondents were moderately aware about the different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Knowledge Level
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2017
School preparedness is strengthened by prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities (also known as the five preparedness mission areas). This fact sheet describes what mitigation is, how mitigation is connected to the other preparedness missions, what mitigation efforts planning teams may want to consider, and how…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Readiness, Prevention, Intervention
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Schumann, Ronald L., III; Tunks, Jeanne L. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2020
Social vulnerability describes human susceptibility to harm or loss from hazards; hence, understanding the human-environment interactions that underlie vulnerability is essential for aspiring emergency managers. Notably, however, pedagogical scholarship on social vulnerability remains scarce. To address this gap, this paper considers how an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
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Raquel Wright-Mair; Candice Peters; Gabrielle A. McAllaster – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2021
International students have contributed to the internationalization and diversification of U.S. higher education; yet, when COVID-19 struck, it became evident that this subset of the U.S. higher education student population was left unaccounted for and unprotected. This manuscript underscores the unimaginable damage and disruption that can occur…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Needs
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Andrews, Stuart; Duggan, Patrick – Research in Drama Education, 2021
Performing City Resilience is a collaborative research project that investigates interrelations between theories, practices and strategies of city resilience, and those of performance. In this essay, the authors explore ways performance might conceive of and contribute to practices of hazard mitigation strategy to better understand how these might…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), National Security, Emergency Programs, Public Agencies
Zenere, Frank J. – Communique, 2018
On September 6, 2017, Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm packing winds of 185 miles per hour skirted the northern coast of Puerto Rico, leaving 1 million residents without electrical power. Schools were closed for 5 days, but a major calamity was narrowly avoided. Overall, residents were grateful for their good fortune, but the same could not be…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Mental Health, Psychologists
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Hunt, Xanthe; Betancourt, Theresa; Pacione, Laura; Elsabbagh, Mayada; Servili, Chiara – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2021
The relationship between developmental disorders and humanitarian settings is a complex one: conflict and natural emergencies can contribute to developmental disorders, largely by compromising women's prenatal and perinatal environment and their access to perinatal care (Zuurmond et al. 2016). Children and adults with disabilities often shoulder a…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Young Children, Childhood Needs, Conflict
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Edmonds, Casey Olivia – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2017
Emergency preparedness is a fast developing field of education driven by the numerous disasters worldwide with more recent notable examples including the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the US in 2001, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the London bombings in 2005, the earthquake in China in 2008, the Great East Japan…
Descriptors: Children, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Terrorism
Corporation for National and Community Service, 2017
AmeriCorps engages more than 80,000 men and women in intensive service each year at more than 21,000 locations including nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and community and faith-based groups across the country. AmeriCorps members help communities tackle pressing problems while mobilizing millions of volunteers for the organizations they…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Nonprofit Organizations, State Programs, National Programs
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Houghton, Frank; Toms, Jeremy; Meratnia, Ghazal; Loney, Krista; Hopkins, Edward; Del Monte, Katie – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Entertainment-education has proved to be an engaging medium through which to explore health and social issues in populations. Given the popularity of the zombie theme in popular culture it is no surprise therefore that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted this theme in an effort to engage youth and young adults in emergency…
Descriptors: Health, Public Health, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters
Heller, Sherryl Scott; Breuer, Anna – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
This article describes the components of the FAN model used in the Fussy Baby Network® intervention. Careful attunement and matching to the parents' experience help stressed parents feel understood and not alone and foster a sense of coherence during this difficult time. It is this attention to the parent's experience that allows flexibility in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Stress Management, Parents, Natural Disasters
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Graham, Rebecca A.; Osofsky, Joy D.; Osofsky, Howard J.; Hansel, Tonya C. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2017
Children exposed to disasters are at an increased likelihood for multiple trauma exposure. The objective of our study is to understand the efficacy of post disaster school based services for reducing trauma symptoms of youth exposed to multiple traumatic events. Students (N = 112) age 8-17 that were survivors of Hurricane Katrina received…
Descriptors: Weather, Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Elementary School Students
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