intro • edurisk stuff • work in progress
EDURISK never stands completely still: there is always a new idea to develop or a new angle to explore. Of course, none of all this would ever be possible without the help of our invaluable friends and allies, the schoolteachers. It’s only thanks to them if concepts, hunches and wild ideas of our providing are steadily turned out into real educational practices.
Our mutual experience starts with the learning courses we offer to teachers about to be involved in the EDURISK experience. These courses are especially designed as an introduction to the EDURISK all-inclusive way of addressing the topic of natural hazards. Educational initiatives dealing with natural risks are often seen as a prerogative of the science teachers only. Here at EDURISK, on the contrary, all teachers - whatever their area of learning (history, science, literature, foreign languages and so on) – are warmly requested to come and share in the work.
The experience and consequences of natural risks are global ones, affecting people at every level and in every aspect of life. Teaching/learning about these risks and about how best to deal with them is an extremely complex topic, and one that should be tackled from as many viewpoints as possible, either at the same time or by stages of growing complexity.
The teachers who agree to take a share in the EDURISK experience are about to undertake an educational journey towards risk reduction together with their classes.
EDURISK asks them to pick up a few of the educational proposals sketched within the Edurisk learning guides “Se arriva il terremoto” and “A prova di terremoto”, and to develop/adapt/change them as they think best into an independent and original school project to be pursued for as long as they like during a scholastic year.
At the end of the year, the teachers will provide a final evaluation of the EDURISK experience as a whole (allowing at the same time to verify the effectivity of the chosen learning paths and to find out the best educational strategies) and they will share the material results of their work with the EDURISK community, thus contributing to the fast-growing collection of EDURISK products awailable in the EDUbox.
Up to this time, almost 2.000 teachers from 11 of the administrative regions of Italy have gotten involved into the EDURISK experience. If you feel like joining them, please access the teachers’ area, and follow the directions you’ll find there.
