JP

Organization

Research Division

Practical Research and Collaboration Division
Disaster Education Research and Implementation Lab
Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Environmental Science)
The University of Tokyo,Komaba Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Subject(s)
As geographer, I conduct research on disaster education in schools and local communities, and am involved in training and development of teaching materials. I am also involved in verifying the effectiveness of workshops for teachers and the general public that utilize GIS (geographic information systems) and promoting the use of disaster prevention geographic information. Based on my experience working on educational reconstruction support and establishing a disaster prevention education training organization at my previous school, Miyagi University of Education, I continue to be interested in the development of disaster prevention education in teacher training and training.
Key Words
Geography / maps / hazard maps / school disaster prevention / disaster prevention education
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Research Activities

I am working on developing training programs and teaching materials for schools and communities and verifying their effectiveness. In recent years, I have been investigating issues in map literacy and risk communication through workshops for teachers and the general public using Web-GIS and the practical use of disaster prevention geographic information. In addition, based on my specialty of geography, I am also working on research on "placeness" in the transmission of disaster memory and lessons learned, and the social vulnerability of North American cities to disasters.

Selected Works

Takashi Oda (ed.), Katsutaka Sasaki (ed.), School Safety Pocketbook, Tokyo Horei Publishing

Takashi Oda (ed.), Disaster Prevention Study Book for Teachers, Asakura Publishing

Takashi Oda, Masayuki Ikeda, Toshimitsu Nagata, Reo Kimura, Shingo Nagamatsu (2023) Development of a teacher training program for the development of disaster prevention education in high school "general geography", E-journal GEO, 18(2), pp. 199-213. (in Japanese)

Takashi Oda, Seiji Suwa, Miki Kodama, Emin Ozdamar (2023) Establishment and dissemination of a disaster prevention education system in the Republic of Turkey: Deepening exchanges triggered by JICA training in Japan, Disaster Prevention Education Research, 4(1), pp63-76. (in Japanese)

Takashi Oda, Yutaro Nashimoto, Yuna Hayashida, Yoshiyuki Murayama, Yasunori Ashida (2023) Introducing disaster prevention education into teacher training courses: Practice toward establishing a university-specific qualification certification system, Journal of Safety Education 22(2), pp23-35. (in Japanese)

Selected Memberships
  • The Japanese Association of Safety Education
  • The Association of Japanese Geographers
  • The Tohoku geographical Association
  • Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science
  • Japanese Society for Disaster Education
Selected Awards
  • Tohoku University President's Award (March 2004)
  • Tohoku Geographical Society Research Encouragement Award (May 2011)