Gaming simulations with Action Learning for community-based disaster reduction training

Authors

  • Yusuke Toyoda Ritsumeikan University

Keywords:

Acton Learning, Community, Capacity Building, Disaster Reduction, Gaming Simulation

Abstract

n this paper, I introduced how Action Learning is adaptable with Gaming Simulation to the context of community-based disaster reduction. With containing the characteristics of Action Learning, I showed theoretically that Gaming Simulation can be an effective tool for promoting disaster reduction and presented one practice of community-based disaster reduction activity. Although its causalities should be investigated more in detail, I hold theoretically that Action Learning can be incorporated to Gaming Simulation to find potential problems in future disaster and to improve the community’s coping capacity in a real world, though previous studies insisted that simulation is not a target of Action Learning that is based on the pedagogical notion that people learn most effectively when working on real-time problems occurring in the own work setting.

Author Biography

Yusuke Toyoda, Ritsumeikan University

Associate Professor, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University

Published

2016-12-30

How to Cite

Toyoda, Y. (2016). Gaming simulations with Action Learning for community-based disaster reduction training. Action Learning and Action Research Journal, 22(1), 162–183. Retrieved from https://alarj.alarassociation.org/index.php/alarj/article/view/183