ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the rationale of disaster co-learning is discussed from a pedagogical perspective. It suggests that co-learning has a high possibility of constructing and sharing the meaning of disaster among stakeholders to comprehend essential disaster governance. Since disaster governance requires all stakeholders' involvement in sharing the meaning of disaster furthermore its reduction, it is important to develop the idea of disaster education. A traditional notion of disaster education, that is transferring knowledge and developing skills, is of course important. Initially, disaster education was understood as transferring knowledge or skills from experts on Disaster Risk Reduction or teachers to learners. In Japan, all schools, even private ones, have to follow the course of study prepared by the central government that is the national curriculum. Most Japanese people believe that education is teaching a specific idea and ensuring learners memorise it.
