Town Watching Handbook for Experiential Education: Enhancing Experiential Learning

Author(s)
Shaw, R. and Takeuchi, Y.
Publication language
English
Pages
58pp
Date published
01 Jan 2009
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Participation, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Education, Urban
Organisations
European Union

Experiential learning is getting increasingly recognized in the field of disaster and environmental education. Disaster education should go beyond the text books, since the text books provide knowledge, however to transform the knowledge into practice, it needs practical training, capacity building, and experiential learning. Town watching/ regional or community watching is a key tool for that purpose.