Promoting a Model of Research-Based Education in Disaster Mitigation

Abstract

This paper highlights the importance to provide appropriate education model with multidisciplinary approach for supporting the capacity development in disaster mitigation. This education model is implemented as a student community service program, in order to accommodate the needs for improving the students’ knowledge and skill, as well as for stimulating the development of ethical values with respect to humanity and sustainable development concerns. This education model has been conducting as a part of the formal curricula at Gadjah Mada University, and it is accordingly introduced and reviewed in this paper with the specific emphasize to discuss its objective, mechanism, benefits, and social impacts, as well as the respective challenges. Finally, this research-based education model is proposed as one model for the disaster mitigation education, which can be applied not only for Indonesian but may also for ASEAN education model.

Keywords: Education model, research-based, disaster mitigation