Characteristics of Disaster Education in Chinese Senior High School Geography Textbooks

Hongbo Sun, Yushan Duan, Fangjing Song, Mengyuan Lu

(East China Normal University, Shanghai, China)

Abstract: Disaster education is one import way to mitigate disaster and protect lives, and the geography textbooks are key to achieving these goals. Chinese senior high school risk geography textbooks contain various disaster education content, such as meteorological disasters, marine disasters, geological disasters, biological disasters, etc. The content is logically arranged to convey systematic and universal disaster knowledge, to enhance the consciousness and action of disaster prevention and mitigation, and to form a harmonious disaster view of human and nature. Besides, the Chinese disaster education integrates the information technology to construct the disaster knowledge framework and to develop the key competence of students.