@conference {bnh-4044,
	title = {Disaster risk reduction education through the lens of postcolonial theory},
	booktitle = {Network in Education for Sustainability Asia Conference 2017},
	year = {2017},
	month = {05/2017},
	publisher = {Network in Education for Sustainability Asia},
	organization = {Network in Education for Sustainability Asia},
	address = {Singapore},
	abstract = {<p>Knowledge saves lives. This is the premise to the Hyogo Framework for Action{\textquoteright}s (HFA) call to governments to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR education in formal, informal, and non-formal channels of every country{\textquoteright}s education systems. There has been varying levels of responsiveness to this call at the policy level. At the school curriculum level, knowledge itself is a contentious subject. One camp espouses teaching on the scientific bases of disasters; another prefers to focus on the usefulness of indigenous knowledges. While knowledge is viewed as the key element for the practice of risk-minimisation behaviour, there are those who are less optimistic, regarding knowledge to have negligible impact to managing risk. Through a postcolonial lens, I reject the artificial compartmentalisation of knowledges (indigenous vs scientific; school-based vs community-based, etc.). My study looks at the context of education and learning and the construction of knowledge as a political, cultural and social affair. Its basic assumption is that learning happens in and outside the classroom, and the resultant {\textquoteleft}knowledges{\textquoteright} are tapped into differently for different purposes. The main objectives are to unpack the processes involved in the construction and perpetuation of DRR knowledge/s, highlight their intersections, overlaps, and disjoints, and examine their implications to the learning of disasters. An intimate, in-depth understanding of how learners in their communities make use of {\textquoteleft}knowledges{\textquoteright} in making sense of disasters is a valuable resource in informing policies on DRR education and governance at the local, state, and international levels.</p>},
	url = {https://sites.google.com/site/efsasiantu/about-the-conference},
	author = {Liberty Pascua}
}
