Resilience for Global Citizenship;
Disaster Prevention and Global Education
Ida,Yoshiyasu :University of Tsukuba

1.Disaster prevention education in Japan• There are many disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruption,typhoons, floods, heavy snow, heavy rains, and so in Japan.
• In school, disasters and blessings from nature such as volcanoes
have taught in social studies, geography and so for long time.
• But contents for disasters has much changed from around 2011.
Teaching disasters and blessings → Learning disaster preventionWhy?

major disasters in Japan (2007-2016)
YearEarthquake2007200820092010
2011

763
5162012201320142015
2016(Great East Japan Earthquake)

1311813
12Volcanic

Storm and flood damage

543153251

７13
15
1010

Transit of Textbook about disaster prevention
Description about disaster prevention in social studies and geography
textbooks
published year

Junior high school (the number ofpage for disaster prevention /total )High school (the number of page fordisaster prevention /total )1995-1998

2/233 (2001)

2/163

2002-2005

2/197

0/159

2013-2016
2020-

6/281
12/287

6/193?

Note1: Nihonbunkyosyuppann-junior high school textbook
Ninomiyasyoten-high school textbook

The change of textbook for natural disasters from2013
After 2011
“what was happened?”
And“How to protect our lives”

Before 2011
“what washappened?”
The knowledge fornatural disasters

2011 Great East
Japan Earthquake

The knowledge for natural
disasters, useful knowledge,
critical thinking and action forprotect from disasters. In otherwords, powerful knowledge
and powerful feature.

２．Differences in disasters due to differencesin the natural environment.
• Disasters in Japan ; Earthquakes, Floods, Heavy snow etc.
• Disasters in Australia ; Wildfire etc.(because of dry area)• Disasters in Thai ; Floods etc.(different with floods in Japan)…………
Differences in disasters due to differences in the naturalenvironment.
→ Disasters prevention educations are different by regions.

Chao Phraya in Bangkok

Wildfire in California

3. Global education of disaster prevention
Students don't only have to study disaster prevention in our own
country or region, but to learn disaster prevention in othercountries.
Because;
1. Students have broad knowledge about disaster prevention.
2. Students might have chances to visit some countries – theymight keep their selves from the disasters.
3. It would be contribute to help each other when disasters occuranywhere.
→Disaster prevention education needs to be global education.
→Training for global citizen.

４.Disaster prevention educationand Society 5.0• From the view of SDGs ; disaster prevention education is important toachieve of “Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities”.
ESD → development → SDGs → education to achieve goals → ESD
・ Disaster prevention education in society 5.0→ Introducing of GIS and AR to disaster prevention education.
・ AR(Augmented Reality) is invisible information added to scenery which
we look by the good use of mobile device.
Students have reality with using map by AR

Augmented Reality（AR)Technology that visual information is added scenery by computer

Reality scenery

Visual information isadded scenery.
AR(Augmentedrealty)
ARVR(Virtual Reality)

Addinginformation
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/ait/articles/1109/26/news136.html

5. Covid-19 as disaster• Covid-19 is added as one of disasters.
• Covid-19 has distributed in the world.
• Regarding Covid-19, we must respond not only to each region butalso to the all world. In Japan, people seem to have become
accustomed to the large number of patients.
• The sense of crisis is fading. Disasters are occurring somewhere inthe world. People have disaster prevention awareness to protect
themselves. And it is necessary for people around the world tocooperate and help each other.
• The future issue is how to maintain motivation for such disasters.
→ It is a one of roles as global citizenship.

6.Conclusion; for Global Citizenship• Disaster prevention education needs to be global education.
• By disaster prevention education corporates with globaleducation, it is possible to develop the ability to create aresilient society for disasters.
• In Society 5.0, AR is useful for disaster prevention education.
• If people who can contribute to society from a global
perspective are defined as global citizenship, one of the roles ofglobal citizenship is to maintain motivation for disasterprevention, including covid-19, and to see disaster prevention
from a global perspective. That is, the role of global citizenshipis to maintain motivation for disaster prevention, including
covid-19 from the view of global perspective.

Global citizenship with disaster prevention

Global citizenshipcreating a resilient society for disasters, including covid-19
maintaining motivation for disaster prevention

Global education
Globalperspective

Disaster prevention
education

Materials forsociety 5.0
such as AR