Emergency Preparedness Education: Learning from Experience, Science of Disasters, and Preparing for the Future

NGUYEN Chi Thanh Vietnam National University, Hanoi APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Emergency Preparedness Education: Learning from Experience, Science of Disasters, and Preparing for the

NGUYEN Chi Thanh Vietnam National University, Hanoi

APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014

Emergency Preparedness Education: Learning from Experience, Science of Disasters, and Preparing for the

Future (III) Focus on Fire and Volcanic Eruption

Presentation Outline

 Introduction

 Instituitional Context

 Design a pedagogy document

 Conclusion

Introduction to Vietnam

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- Non vocanic eruption (not yet)

- But many others natural disaters:

Flood; Typhoon; Landslide, Forest fire

Natural Disaters in Vietnam

Natural Disaters in Vietnam

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High risk on forest fires

 "According to Forest department of

Vietnam, the country now has 37 provinces (on 63 provinces and cities in Vietnam) with

a high risk of forest fires in which nine provinces are located in the area of red alert“

 Besides these 9 provinces at high risk there are 27 other provinces which are at risk of forest fires in level IV (dangerous levels)

Instituitional Context

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- Strong determinanion

from MOET (The

ministry of Education

and Training): policy

support by official

regulation

(4620/QD-BGDDT)

- But lack of

concrete

measures

relative to

curriculum,

textbook,

teaching

method etc.

Instituitional Context

 The 4620/QĐ-BGDĐT Ministry Regulation: « Trong đó, Bộ trưởng Bộ giáo dục Đào tạo đã kí quyết định số 4620/QĐ-BGDĐT ngày 12/10/2010 về phê duyệt kế hoạch hành động ứng phó với BĐKH của ngành giáo dục đào tạo giai đoạn 2011 –

2015 Quyết định đã chỉ rõ sẽ triến khai đại trà GDBĐKHTC trong các cấp học, bậc học trên toàn quốc vào năm 2015. »

In particular, the Minister of Education and

Training has signed the regulation 4620/QD-BGDDT dated on 12.10.2010 to approve an

action plan to respond to climate change

education sector for the period 2011 - 2015

This action plan will be impleemented in all educational levels across the country from the

Instituitional Context: contents

emphasize on flood and typhoon

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Design a pedagogic

document

Instituitional integration: optional theme in extra

curriculum

Content: to identify the level of forest fire in some

provinces according to date provided by meteorological stations

Mathematic knowledge:

• Using the statistics data of temperature, air humidity and rainfall at 13 hours daily to determine the meteorological Nesterop index P from November 2002 to date of the

meteorological stations

• Using daily statistics on P to classify P for each month at indicated provinces

• Application of spatial interpolation methods for

Design a pedagogic

document

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Method: projec based learning

 Lesson study approach

Document experimentation

I Climate change issues

II Climate change education in secondary schools

III.Proposal of a framework IV.Examples of Lesson

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Thanks for your attention