ABSTRACT
Education has been shown to contribute to saving lives, reducing property and infrastructure losses, and accelerating disaster recovery. This chapter provides a brief overview of disaster risk reduction education. First, it characterizes and gives examples of the three categories of disaster risk reduction education: formal, non-formal, and informal. Next, it describes formal education in Japan and the Philippines as examples of how countries have integrated disaster risk reduction into their national education curricula. Last, the chapter discusses the effectiveness of disaster risk reduction education by looking at the indicators used in the assessments of learning and the intervals at which these assessments are conducted. Based on the results reported by various researchers, the focus should be on assessing the impact on behavior change and actions rather than on just knowledge gains. This approach will be in line with the aim of disaster risk reduction education to contribute toward a culture of disaster prevention and safety among learners.
