TITLE:
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Education from Social Disciplinary Theoretical Perspectives
AUTHORS:
Yagya Raj Pant
KEYWORDS:
Sociology of Disaster, Social Vulnerability, Disaster Governance, Education Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Education, Pluri-Scalar Education Governance
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Earthquake Research,
Vol.13 No.1,
February
9,
2024
ABSTRACT: Disaster is a social
phenomenon. The occurrence and impacts of disasters including the education sector can be studied through a social
problem lens. This paper draws meaning and understanding of DRR education using the sociological
disciplinary framework in a detailed qualitative case study of three schools as
they responded to the devastating Gorakha earthquake in 2015 and other
disasters in Nepal. This paper considers the three sub-disciplines of
sociology: the sociology of disaster, the sociology of education and the
sociology of education governance in a development context. These
sub-disciplines are nested together to analyse social, political and historical
factors and their relationships which are helpful to identify risks and
vulnerabilities in the education sector in Nepal. These are the major areas to
explore the disaster context and needs of context-specific
education acts (hereafter DRR education) to minimise the potential risks of
disasters. The article concludes that the social disciplinary
framework is significantly useful to analyse DRR education provisions and
implications of education governance to mobilise school in disaster
preparedness, response and recovery.