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Policies and activities in the education sector to protect students and educators from disasters impacts, ensure continuity of education through all expected hazards and strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education.

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Latest Education and school safety additions in the Knowledge Base

School children in a classroom in Gao, Mali
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Wonyong Park Lorenzo Miani Olivia Levrini

Disasters in the classroom: Lessons on talking to students about extreme climate events

Schools are an important space young people to learn about disaster risk, but too often teachers miss educational opportunities. Educators need to better understand how to use specific climate disaster examples in the classroom to teach about risk.
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Educational materials

Learning about natural disasters: Games and projects for you and your friends

The booklet is designed to be used by schools around the world to complement existing materials about nature-induced disasters in each country. Targeted for ages 8-12, some parts can be tailored to both younger and older children.
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Extreme heat series for minecraft education

Students around the world can explore a new virtual world to learn heat wave survival skills and cooling solutions through the Minecraft Education platform.
Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
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Documents and publications

High temperature and learning outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia

This paper uses data from 2003–19 on 2.47 million test takers of a national high stakes university entrance exam in Ethiopia to study the impacts of temperature on learning outcomes.
Child studying at school in the Philippines
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26M Filipino learners suffer the most from climate change, says Save the Children Philippines

Over 26 million enrolled students in the Philippines are confronted with the multifaceted impacts of climate change, including the possibility of El Nino bringing intolerable heat, more powerful typhoons, and limited access to water for basic needs.
Save the Children - Philippines
A Vietnamese school girl bikes through the flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh wearing her school uniform.
Research briefs

School’s out: how climate change is already badly affecting children’s education

A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change reviewed studies linking climate change-related events or “climate stressors” to education outcomes.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications

Emerging trends in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation higher education

The objective of this research paper is to review existing practices and literature regarding education curricula in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) within higher education (HE) institutions.
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Documents and publications

Impact of disasters on student enrollment in higher education programs: A systematic review

This study aims to evaluate how disasters affect student enrollment in higher education programs, considering both immediate and long-term consequences.

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