Enhancing the capacities of natural hazard mitigation: A study on a typhoon curriculum module in high school earth science

Natural Hazards

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 423-440

  Chang, Chun Yen ^a,b   Chang, Yueh Hsia ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Curriculum module; High school; Learning outcomes; Typhoon hazards mitigation

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; GUIDELINE; LEARNING; NATURAL HAZARD; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SECONDARY EDUCATION; TEACHING; TYPHOON;

TAIWAN;

EID: 78049335089     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9538-1     Document Type: Article

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