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

Emergency Preparedness Education: Learning from Experience, Science of Disasters, and Preparing for the Future (III) Focus on Fire and Volcanic Eruption NGUYEN Chi Thanh Vietnam National University, Hanoi APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Presentation Outline Introduction Instituitional Context Design a pedagogy document Conclusion APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Introduction to Vietnam - Non vocanic eruption (not yet) - But many others natural disaters: Flood; Typhoon; Landslide, Forest fire APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Natural Disaters in Vietnam APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Natural Disaters in Vietnam APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 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 provinces at high risk there are 27 other provinces which are at risk of forest fires in level IV (dangerous levels) APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Instituitional Context - Strong determinanion from MOET (The ministry of Education and Training): policy support by official regulation (4620/QDBGDDT) - But lack of concrete measures relative to curriculum, textbook, APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 teaching Instituitional Context  The 4620/QĐ-BGDĐT Ministry Regulation: « Trong đó, Bộ trưởng Bộ giáo dục Đào tạo kí định số 4620/QĐ-BGDĐT ngày 12/10/2010 phê duyệt kế hoạch hành động ứng phó với BĐKH ngành giáo dục đào tạo giai đoạn 2011 – 2015 Quyết định rõ triến khai đại trà GDBĐKHTC cấp học, bậc học toàn quốc vào năm 2015. » In particular, the Minister of Education and Training has signed the regulation 4620/QDBGDDT 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 year of 2015 Action are focused on some natural disaters like flood, typhoon etc but not yet on forest fires APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Instituitional Context: contents emphasize on flood and typhoon APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 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 determining the date of the P grade and for each month in each 1km2 equidistant points around the territory • Document 10 APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Design a pedagogic document   Lesson study approach 11 APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Method: projec based learning Document experimentation I Climate change issues II Climate change education in secondary schools III Proposal of a framework IV Examples of Lesson plan 12 APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014 Thanks for your attention 13 APEC Tsukuba Conference 2014