The current study aimed at investigating the educational crisis management and its relation to using distance learning approach in secondary stage schools in Al-Balqaa governorate during COVID-19 outbreak from the perspectives of teachers. A random study sample consisted of 10 male and female teachers from 30 different secondary stage schools was…

This paper aims at determining the natural disaster literacy levels of pre-service teachers who will teach the natural geography course. The data in the present study, in which the researchers adopted a survey design conducted on 442 pre-service geography teachers (PGTs), were collected through the Natural Disasters Literacy Questionnaire. As a…

In this article Sharon Stein and Jan Hare ask how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To grapple with this question, they examine the dynamics through which climate action can reproduce colonial relations and reflect on the challenges, complexities, and possibilities that…

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Emergency Remote Teaching through Online Learning" "(ERT-OL") has become the prevalent form of learning at many universities worldwide. At the same time, voices around the world have pointed to "difficulties" in online learning in general and to concerns regarding…

Environmental disaster was important issue to be solved. Current situation disasters such as flood, earthquake, tsunami, volcanoes and others could be happened. This study aimed to obtain information about the relationship between knowledge of disaster and preparedness behaviors and disaster preparedness behaviors. This research was a Sequential…

The main objective of the present research was to explore students' experiences of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we were interested in how strategies for coping with an emergency situation, learning strategies and positivity relate to this experience. A total of 337 university students participated in the…

COVID-19 is a wide-reaching health emergency which makes the globe to a standstill with supreme and unexpected impact in our life. The present study is focused on the mental health, stress and academic anxiety among students of higher education. This study was conducted to know the level of mental health stress and academic anxiety of the higher…

With the sudden and forced change to various modalities of remote education amid the COVID-19 crisis, the technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) self-efficacy and continuance intention of teachers demand an investigation. This article aimed to assess the TPK self-efficacy and continuance intention of teachers in remote education amid the…

The study aims to examine parents' opinions about Emergency Remote Education (ERE) during the pandemic and the feasibility of home-schooling in Turkey. The study uses a causal-comparative model. 654 parents took part in the study. ERE for Homeschooling Questionnaire developed by researchers is used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics,…

Every year, worldwide, disasters affect approximately seven million children with disabilities, highlighting their potential vulnerability. Although there is a growing move internationally to promote the rights of children with disabilities, they still receive little attention from disaster risk reduction (DRR) researchers and policy makers. They…

The COVID-19 pandemic has held a mirror to our society: exposing the cracks and blemishes of our many systems, highlighting the inequalities that exist, and revealing the disproportionate effects this disease has on definite segments of our communities. COVID-19 is considered a global emergency mirroring another ongoing global emergency: climate…

The COVID-19 pandemic required educators and learners to shift to emergency remote instruction, often with little prior notice. To understand how teachers managed the transition, from April to September 2020 we surveyed nearly 1,500 instructors from 118 countries. Using cluster analysis, we have detected two readily distinguishable groups of…

Purpose: This paper aims to identify the relationship between organizational learning culture, psychological contract breach, work engagement, training simulation and transfer of training, to examine the effect of transfer of training on organizational citizenship behaviour and to determine the mediating effect of transfer of training on the…

Chapter 1: School Cellphone Bans and Student Substance Abuse: Evidence From California Public High Schools: Following high profile school shootings and the September 11th terrorist attacks, public concern over school emergency preparedness prompted the California State Legislature in 2003 to overturn a statewide ban against student possession of…

The term "state of exception" has been used by Italian political theorist Giorgio Agamben to explain the ways in which emergencies, crises and disasters are used by governments to suspend legal processes. In this paper, we innovatively apply Agamben's theory to the way in which countries prepare and educate the population for various…