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Section 2.
Methodology
Environmental Education, Child Friendly School initiatives
and/or Life Skills Education
It was assumed that noteworthy cases would meet a significant
number, but not necessarily all, of the criteria. The resultant
collection of case studies, taken as a whole, would also meet
two further criteria: representation of all UNICEF regions and
of all development levels.
The first major task of the researchers was to develop an
annotated review of DRR in curriculum documentation for
presentation at a UNICEF/UNESCO meeting of key project
stakeholders. The meeting was held in Paris on 31 October 2011.
The review was organized into four sections:
Global documentation (i.e., documentation covering examples
of DRR in curriculums from around the world)
Regional documentation (i.e., documentation covering
examples of DRR in the countries of a specific region)
Country-specific documentation
Academic papers
For annotating each global and regional document, the following
headings were employed for analysis and discussion:
For the annotation of country-specific documents and
academic papers, each entry was accorded a single paragraph
of annotation.
The bulk of country-specific annotation was employed in support
of ‘work in progress’ case studies of 23 countries. The findings
and insights from the case studies formed the focus of discussion
at the 31 October 2011 Paris meeting. By the close of meeting
suggestions for a further 24 case studies had been floated.
After the Paris meeting the researchers explored the feasibility
of each of the additional case study suggestions (in terms of
available documentation) and then proceeded to extend and
elaborate upon the existing 23 case studies.
The overall research process involved 73 different approaches
overall including 52 to UN regional and country offices and 21
to ministries and/or governmental bodies, eliciting 48 responses
in total.
Three interviews took place by telephone or Skype facility.
There were also email dialogs with key informants in nine
countries to whom successive drafts of the case study in
question were also shown in order for them to check for
accuracy and offer feedback.
Policy
Curriculum (grades, subjects)
Learning and Teaching Materials (including hazards addressed)
Pedagogy
Assessment
Professional Development
Comments (i.e., additional points of a general nature)
Disaster Risk Reduction in School Curricula: Case Studies from Thirty Countries