JAUE2018-070 A Study on the Awareness and Demand of Water Disaster Safety Education in Elementary School

Abstract

There has been the outbreak of a series of major disasters recently. For that reason, in November 2014, the Ministry of Education announced, “Comprehensive Measures for Safety Education”. After this, “Seven Standards for Safety Education” was proposed as a standard for systematic safety education considering the developmental stage of students in February 2015. The Standard consists of seven categories: living safety, traffic safety, personal protection and prevent against violence, prevention of drug and cyber addiction, disaster safety, occupational safety, first aid. And it has been configured to provide safety education at the time fixed by school year. The nation’s current disaster safety education is focused on fire and natural disasters are rarely addressed in the curriculum. In the past decade, however, all human casualties of the total natural disaster have been reported in water disaster. To prevent human casualties caused by water disaster, it is important to know the proper means of escape that minimize the damage that can occur. Therefore, the purpose of this study to investigate the status of safety education and propose safety education, customized for water disaster through investigation of the demand.