How to Manage Student Elementary School Learning in Disaster Areas?

Abstract

Natural disasters are emergencies that frequently occur throughout the world. Education for elementary school students when a disaster occurs is one of the focuses that must receive attention. This study aims to review various forms of learning activities that can be presented to elementary school students when natural disasters occur, including prevention and how to reduce their impacts. This research is a type of literature review research that discusses concept learning applied by emergency schools in disaster areas. To support the literature review data, several journal articles indexed by Scopus and SINTA related to learning for children in disaster-prone areas. The search was limited to reviewed articles in English and Indonesian with a publishing period of 2015-2021. The selected articles were reviewed for relevant citation and conducted by two research independently. The primary search generated 50 relevant references. After eliminating the duplicates and articles which were not related to the review of the abstract, 20 references were identified for inclusion. After reviewing more, 30 references, which failed to meet the inclusion index, were excluded from the study. Based on the results, managing learning student elementary school can be in the form of 1) disaster preparedness education, 2) disaster education for primary school teachers, 3) disaster education for primary school students, 4) disaster literacy, and 5) learning Media. The disaster education program also had an impact on the knowledge and practice of teachers at public elementary schools.