Civil protection from a drill activity to a contribution to a contextualised learning in school (original) (raw)

Civil protection from a drill activity to a contribution to a contextualised learning in school

Teaching and learning specific scientific contents has been an important focus of research in science education in both Europe and North America. When the issue is related to the civil protection, the problem seems to be limited to a “how-to-do” tasks to be activated in case of an emergency in a certain situation specifically related to an occurring disasters. This view restricts civil protection to the boundary of practical exercises and takes it out the circle of pedagogic actions. The first effort should be adapt the civil protection issue to the field of scientific education and consider it as a potential section of science education in all the school degrees. This article intends to present civil protection education as a part of the scientific studies in school in order to accompany the effect and the impact of all these activities strictly related to behaviours and strategy to put into action in case of natural and manmade disaster, such as exercises, drills and practical simulations.