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Location
London, England.
What I do for DRR education and how I can contribute to this site
Justin is researching the impact that Social Learning Theory may have on Disaster Risk Reduction practices. Social Learning Theory provides a useful model for behavioural adjustments that encompasses and acknowledges the parts played by cognitive, behavioural and environmental influences in decision-making. This includes influences within the home, in the community, at school and from peers. Who individuals identify with is important. This is especially so when individuals are children, who look to family and other adults to model behaviour.

It is hoped that the fieldwork will help to investigate the effects of social learning on the development of personal and group efficacy by asking the following questions:

What are the most important elements for enabling self-efficacy after education has taken place?
Do new social networks add to or detract from perceived self-efficacy?
Should education for DRR aim to enable personal and group efficacy and will this lead to greater action and behaviour change?

This will involve fieldwork in the UK, USA and Japan, examining in particular social learning in the schools, community and within the family and how self and group efficacy develops.

Biography:
As an educationalist Justin has been developing curriculum materials that use a range of pedagogies to enable students to access the curriculum effectively while allowing them to take responsibility for their own safety and preparedness. This resulted in the creation of the website www.edu4hazards.org in 2007 aimed at helping children and youth prepare for a range of hazards. In particular multiple intelligence theory has been applied to the development and delivery of curriculum alongside experiential learning. The use of multi-media techniques in teaching, learning and sharing of knowledge has been used to engage and motivate students in the process of disaster preparation. In 2009 Justin set up a social networking site for educators involved with Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE), which has over 250 members and can be accessed at: http://www.edu4drr.org. The aim was to share good practice and provide resources and ideas for professionals.

Justin has been able to share information about his research and how curriculum development has impacted on children and their families in terms of preparedness, at a variety of levels (Local, National and International). This has included the presentation of academic papers and poster presentations. He has also been able to observe and evaluate earthquake drills in Los Angeles and Taiwan, feeding back to the agencies that organised these events with the aim of making them meaningful experiences for both students and teachers. Within his own school Justin has set up an emergency planning group which is now responsible for planning and delivery of policy, the training of staff and the execution of drills to test the effectiveness of such strategies.

Publications:

2012: Dillon, J., Sharpe, J.E. and Pelling, M. (in preparation) Adaptation to climate change and disaster risk: The role of learning in a post-normal world In M. Krasny and J. Dillon (Eds) (2012, in preparation). Innovation in Environmental Education Research: Emerging Trans-disciplinary Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang.

2011: Sharpe, J.E. and Kelman, I. Improving the disaster-related component of secondary school geography education in England
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Vol. 20, No. 4, November 2011, 327–343

2005:
Teaching About Disasters: Published in 'Teaching Geography' Autumn 2005 click here to access

Papers and Presentations:

November 2009
Poster presented at Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting research into practice, University College London, UK. Drills as part of the experiential learning cycle for disaster risk reduction education – A bureaucratic exercise or meaningful experience?

August 2009
Japan –UK Disaster Education Conference, Kyoto, Japan
Disaster Education in Schools
May 2009
Presentation given to the 2nd International Conference on Disaster Prevention Education, entitled: 'The mechanism for training teachers for disaster prevention education'.The accompanying paper was published as part of the proceedings of the conference.
October 2008
Presentation to the London Emergency Planning Group on 'Engaging Students in disaster preparedness'
October 2007
Presentation prepared for Building safer schools communities -European and Mediterranean Workshop on Disaster Reduction at School
Paphos, Cyprus.



My Curriculum Vitae can be viewed here
Website:
http://www.edu4hazards.org

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NEW RESOURCE: Why Don't People Prepare for and React to Earthquake Hazards?

This set of resources is aimed at students in the 14-19 age range. The first consists of a real audio player file which are the 911 calls taken at the time of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. This is used as a starter…See More
Apr 15
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"Just like to welcome our six new members this week and am looking forward to their posts about education for DRR! Our is nowmembership 276!"
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Discussion with Kindergarten teachers, Iran

"Hey thanks for adding the photographs! If you could make comments below each one to 'annotate' them with brief explanations, this would be really useful as it would help to provide a narrative to your photographs and share your story!…"
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Lego Minifigs: When Lightning Strikes! Captain Do and First Mate Don't explain!

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Avalance Safety using lego minifigs!

This video shows how to make yourself safe to prepare for and respond to avalanches, using lego mini-figures as our actors! This example was created by the c...
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"Today is the 1 year anniversary for those who lost lives & those left behind in ♯Japan. Let us work together to prevent losses in future."
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School board apologizes for tsunami death

The following news story has come from NHK, the Japanese TV station which broadcasts via satellite in English, but is an important step and a warning about the dangers of ignoring safety messages!The education board in Ishinomaki City, northeastern Japan has admitted responsibility and apologized for the large number of deaths among students at the Okawa Elementary School in last year's tsunami.70 of the school's 108 students were killed in the March 11th disaster and 4 remain missing.The…See More
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Justin Sharpe commented on Rohit Jigyasu's blog post Training Course on Integrated Urban Disaster Risk Reduction (IUDRR) in New Delhi
"Although the training course aims to follow an integrated approach to DRR, the voice of children and youth are under-represented. Perhaps allowing groups that have been carrying out DRR activities from youth groups a chance to share their experience…"
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theories of learning.

a video made for an intro to learning theories assignment demonstrating what is learning? starring some of my beautiful cousins and lil friends.
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Dry Tree vs. High Moisture Tree Fire

This video shows the ignition propensity of a properly maintained Fraser fir Christmas tree compared to that of a dry tree
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"New paper on DRR education for school curriculum out today: http://ning.it/sgonh1 Application of pedagogy & ideas for teacher training."
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"Just posted drop, cover and hold on graphic. Useful for Japan? 日本のための有用な？"
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Student created graphic in Manga Style

As part of homework creating an advert for TV, Cinema, Radio or in poster format, one of my students produced this! I think this is fantastic and is especially useful for countries in Asia where this sort of artwork is popular!
Nov 4, 2011
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Which countries visit Edu4DRR most?

Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:57pm 0 Comments

As a geographer I was intrigued as to where our visitors and users of Edu4DRR come from, so I made this list! With flags too! Do we need groups for the more popular countries? What do you think?

 United Kingdom (GB) 734…
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School board apologizes for tsunami death

Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:42am 0 Comments

The following news story has come from NHK, the Japanese TV station which broadcasts via satellite in English, but is an important step and a warning about the dangers of ignoring safety messages!

The education board in Ishinomaki City, northeastern Japan has admitted responsibility and apologized for the large number of deaths among students at the Okawa Elementary School in last year's tsunami.



70 of the school's 108 students were killed in the March 11th…
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New Resource in curriculum area with emphasis on experiential learning!

Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:26pm 0 Comments

Adding a new curriculum guide for interactive teaching of DRR in Georgia, but could be applied in any classroom for younger students, most of lessons are aimed at grades 5-9 and the aim is for student participation and understanding rather than didactic teaching of curriculum, which is definitely a step…

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Blog Competition is BACK!!! Win a Limited edition Lego mini-figure!

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NEW RESOURCE: Why Don't People Prepare for and React to Earthquake Hazards?

Posted on October 4, 2011 at 1:00pm 4 Comments

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At 1:16pm on January 4, 2011, Steve Harris said…

Hi Justin,

 

I've sent an email response due the the limitations of the wall.

 

Kind Regards

 

Steve

At 3:52pm on November 17, 2010, Sarah Mediatrix Toraldo said…
Thank you, Justin! Will post soon!
At 12:32pm on October 25, 2010, Yasamin O. Izadkhah said…
Hi Justin

It has been a while since we last met. Hope you are fine and the studies are progressing well.

I have been working on a project on various methods for teaching disasters to kindergarten children since Feb. 2010. There is a section in the project that aims to introduce methods that are used in different countries for teaching disasters (such as earthquakes, floods, volcano, etc) to kindergarten children. I was wondering if this request can be posted on the edu4drrwebsite, so I can hear from other members about the experiences they have in their countries in this regard.

I would appreciate your assistance.

Regards

Yasamin Izadkhah
Assistant Professor, IIEES
At 6:57am on July 26, 2010, Risye Dwiyani (Iche) said…
Hello Justin.. yeah, been a long time ne! Come to Japan again, for sure I'll be here at least till the end of October. Yep yep when you were in Japan last August I was doing the project in Indonesia. One of the activities was to introduce a disaster game to kindergarten teachers and children, and further created the adapted game into local context together with the teachers. I just heard that last week the game has started to be practiced also in another city! :) Umm.. as for my current activity, other than writing, I am now preparing a small program for discussion about climate change in a Japan-ASEAN youth exchange program. I will be the facilitator, starting from 30th October till 25th November, and the program will be held on a cruising ship ^ ^ I am so excited. Will update about it later :)

Thanks a lot for actively updating the news and studies about DRR! I think I owe you a lot for this.. :)
At 1:01pm on July 12, 2010, Saudamini Das said…
Justin,
I did a detailed research on cyclone risk and role of natural buffers like mangroves, casuarinas, or man made structures like dikes in reducing the risk to lives. I found mangroves playing a very strong protective role and reducving risk to human lives by more than 50%. Of course, I analysed total deaths and total human population at risk in the study area.
At 10:31pm on February 4, 2010, Briony Towers said…
Hi Justin. Thanks a lot. I'm writing up my thesis at the moment so I'm coming across stuff all the time. I'll be to sure to share anything good. We are not doing so well with DRR education in Australia it seems. Lost of room for improvement. There still seems to be an overriding perception that kids can't do much. Which we all know is far from the truth! Best, BT
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At 12:23pm on December 21, 2009, Yasamin O. Izadkhah said…
Merry Christmas Justin. Have a wonderful 2010.

Also to all the EDU4drr members.

Yasamin from Iran
At 2:48pm on December 3, 2009, emmerando martin p. cruz said…
what other website should i go to help me gather more information safety?

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International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage

Posted by Rohit Jigyasu on May 15, 2012 at 5:34am 0 Comments

Please note that application for the course has been extended to 31 May 2012. Details are available at http://www.ritsumei-gcoe.jp/heritagerisknet.dmuch/itc/index.html

Which countries visit Edu4DRR most?

Posted by Justin Sharpe on March 26, 2012 at 5:57pm 0 Comments

As a geographer I was intrigued as to where our visitors and users of Edu4DRR come from, so I made this list! With flags too! Do we need groups for the more popular countries? What do you think?

 United Kingdom (GB) 734…
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Children of the Tsunami

Posted by Briony Towers on March 13, 2012 at 3:42am 0 Comments

This beautifully made documentary investigates children's experiences of the Japanese tsunami and nuclear disaster. It will be of real interest to anyone who works in the field of child-centred disaster risk reduction. The children articulate their experiences with great insight and in doing so, they further challenge the notion that children are passive victims of disaster who must rely on adults to speak for them. Of particular interest, is the children's desire to take what they have…

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School board apologizes for tsunami death

Posted by Justin Sharpe on January 24, 2012 at 9:42am 0 Comments

The following news story has come from NHK, the Japanese TV station which broadcasts via satellite in English, but is an important step and a warning about the dangers of ignoring safety messages!

The education board in Ishinomaki City, northeastern Japan has admitted responsibility and apologized for the large number of deaths among students at the Okawa Elementary School in last year's tsunami.



70 of the school's 108 students were killed in the March 11th…
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