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: Received: 5 April 2024 / Approved: 7 April 2024 / Online: 7 April 2024 (10:46:07 CEST)
How to cite:
Cvetković, V.M.; Nikolić, N.; Lukić, T. Exploring Students' and Teachers' Insights on School-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Safety: A Case Study of Western Morava Basin, Serbia. Preprints2024, 2024040472. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0472.v1
Cvetković, V.M.; Nikolić, N.; Lukić, T. Exploring Students' and Teachers' Insights on School-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Safety: A Case Study of Western Morava Basin, Serbia. Preprints 2024, 2024040472. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0472.v1
Cvetković, V.M.; Nikolić, N.; Lukić, T. Exploring Students' and Teachers' Insights on School-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Safety: A Case Study of Western Morava Basin, Serbia. Preprints2024, 2024040472. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0472.v1
APA Style
Cvetković, V.M., Nikolić, N., & Lukić, T. (2024). Exploring Students' and Teachers' Insights on School-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Safety: A Case Study of Western Morava Basin, Serbia. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0472.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Cvetković, V.M., Neda Nikolić and Tin Lukić. 2024 "Exploring Students' and Teachers' Insights on School-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Safety: A Case Study of Western Morava Basin, Serbia" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0472.v1
Abstract
Integrated disaster risk reduction in schools represents a key component of safety strategies within the educational sector of every country. In this study, a series of 850 face-to-face interviews (650 with students and 200 with teachers) were conducted throughout 2023 in 10 out of the total 18 municipalities in the Western Morava Basin of the Republic of Serbia. The paper proposes two central hypotheses regarding school-based disaster risk reduction. Firstly, it suggests that gender, age, parent's employment, academic achievement, living situation, paternal and maternal education levels, and engagement with social media collectively influence students' perspectives on this matter. Secondly, it posits that gender, age, marital status, parenthood, and educational background significantly impact teachers' viewpoints on school-based disaster risk reduction. Multivariate linear regression was used to explore predictors of students' and teachers' insights on school-based disaster risk reduction. Various statistical tests including Chi-square, t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation were employed to investigate the influence of demographic and socioeconomic factors on these insights. The results of multivariate regression analyses indicate that age, gender and marital emerge as the primary predictors across various facets of students' and teachers' insights on school-based disaster risk reduction (awareness of disasters, disaster education activities, attitudes on disaster risk reduction education, enhancement of disaster information accessibility, etc). The results of this study provide insight into the key factors influencing students' and teachers' perceptions of disaster risk reduction in schools. As such, they can serve as a basis for improving educational programs, developing policies and strategies, normative educational frameworks, teacher training, and further research in disaster education.
Keywords
disaster; safety; risk reduction; preparedness; education; schools; students; teachers; human re-sources; Western Morava Basin, Serbia
Subject
Social Sciences, Education
Copyright:
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