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CoV 8. Disaster Risk Reduction Pedagogy Session 2.II.B
From: "Carina Fearnley [cjf9]" <cjf9@xxxxxxxxxx>CoV 8. Disaster Risk Reduction Pedagogy Session 2.II.B
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Dear all,
Are you interested in developing best practises for disaster risk reduction education in a volcanic crisis?
If so, we would like to bring to your attention session 2.II.B "Disaster
Risk Reduction Pedagogy: Developing Best Practices for Educating and
Training Students, and Professional Emergency and Land-Use Managers
for Volcanic Crisis", to be held at the Cities
on Volcanoes 8 meeting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (9-13 September 2014).
We welcome contributions from a wide range of teaching practices and
from differing stakeholders in a volcanic crisis
to provide talks or small samples of teaching approaches adopted. A full session description is provided below:
When volcanic unrest
occurs, it is the job of the scientists and emergency managers
(stakeholders) to successfully manage the ongoing event. To be
successful, stakeholders must be acquainted with one another’s
needs prior to the crisis, and make efficient use of a number of
transferable skills such as communication, decision-making and teamwork
skills to synthesise the scientific, political, cultural and economic
information and context. Negotiating scientific uncertainty
and managing risk are often a major challenge (even for seasoned
professionals), particularly under conditions where values are in
dispute, stakes are high, and the needs for decisions are urgent and
often changing rapidly over time.
These skills are best
learned through experience on the job or simulated in the classroom /
office. This session aims to bring together expertise and best practices
from around the world to examine how disaster
management is taught in a number of contexts including: first, the
teaching and participatory activities adopted in classroom to teach
students at tertiary institutions and schools; and second, to train
practitioners through training exercises.
A wide range of teaching
practices are invited for discussion in this session: simulation,
visualizations, role-play, educational technology, seminars,
case-studies, group/team projects, etc. Talks or small samples
of teaching approaches can be adopted, with the aim of sharing ideas,
best practices, and engaging with the specific pedagogical requirements
needed for disaster risk management studies and practices.
The abstract submission deadline is Monday 14th April 2014. Full details can be found on http://www.citiesonvolcanoes8.com
We look forward to an interesting session full of discussion and the sharing of ideas and practices from around the globe.
Carina Fearnley
Carolyn Driedger
Thomas Wilson
Jacqueline Dohaney
Stacey Edwards
Kind Regards,
Carina
Dr. Carina Fearnley
Lecturer in Environmental Hazards
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences | Aberystwyth University |
Llandinam Building | Aberystwyth
| Ceredigion |
SY23 3DB | UK
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