Building a Culture of Resilience through Education

Original date: February 20, 2014

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Presenters: David Selby & Fumiyo Kagawa

Description: Children and youth witness and experience natural disasters in increasing numbers and intensity.  This webinar will explore the curriculum, learning and teaching implications of helping children and youth to become active agents in preventing, mitigating and better coping with natural disasters.  It will highlight practical ideas and examples of disaster risk reduction (DRR) education in school and community characterized by child/youth participation and leadership.  The webinar will also explore how environmental education can contribute to disaster risk reduction and vice-versa.  Participants will be invited to share their own practice and experience in empowering children and youth to help foster a resilient school and community.

David Selby is Founding Director and Fumiyo Kagawa is Research Director of Sustainability Frontiers, a new not-for-profit international organization with offices in Canada and the UK.  (See www.sustainabilityfrontiers.org.)  They are authors of Sustainability Frontiers: Critical and Transformative Voices from the Borderlands of Sustainability Education.