Disaster awareness among school children: the use of disaster information leaflet

• Main Authors: Mohd Zol, Nurfatin, Abdul Nifa, Faizatul Akmar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2020
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/28426/1/STMLGG%2001%2024%202020%2084-86.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/28426/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

This research is about education of disaster by using Disaster Information Leaflet among children. This research focuses on student in SK Felda Bukit Tangga. ‘Disaster Education’ is a new area of enquiry in the field of education. At present there are few texts which deal directly with public education for emergencies. The knowledge of the disaster will help them to protect the children if something bad happened to them or person around them. A natural disaster is “an event, concentrated in time and space, which threatens a society or a relatively self-sufficient subdivision of a society with major unwanted consequences as a result of the collapse of precautions which had hitherto been culturally accepted as adequate. Information plays a vital role during disasters. Information is essential in decision making, in damage, and needs assessment and to assist disaster-affected people and areas without a delay. The objective of this study is to examine the view of children about the disaster after reading the leaflet.