This study evaluated the impact of a disaster education program implemented by the fourth-grade students at an elementary school affected by tsunami one year after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster. Called the “Reconstruction Mapping Program”, it applied a town-watching and map-making approach to disaster education in the disaster reconstruction phase. Emphasizing positive aspects of reconstruction in consideration of the disaster affected children's mental care, the aim of the Program was set as developing children's attitudes towards contributing to the community. The study used mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine the fourth-grade children's responses to the Program before and after the implementation in 2013 and 2014, and 2018. The study found that the Program was a promising approach for the students who had experience disaster because even after walking around the community that was destroyed by the 2011 tsunami, children kept their affection for their community and they became motivated to contribute to the community's reconstruction. The study also found that the ninth-grade students in 2018 who participated in the Program in 2013 perceived the Program experience positively because they thought that working in groups and keeping records of reconstruction were important. The Program experience impacted the ninth-grade students' willingness to contribute to the community for the longer term. However, not much impact was seen for their disaster preparedness and mitigation behavior. The Program helped to foster children as “agents of change” to make a disaster-resilient community.

这项研究评估了2011年东日本大地震和海啸灾难发生一年后，四年级学生在受海啸影响的小学实施的灾难教育计划的影响。它被称为“重建地图计划”，它在灾后重建阶段将城镇观察和地图制作方法应用于灾后教育。该方案的重点是考虑到受灾影响的儿童的精神保健，重建工作的积极方面，其目的是培养儿童对社区贡献的态度。该研究采用定性和定量分析的混合方法，研究了2013年，2014年和2018年实施四年级儿童对该计划的反应。该研究发现，该计划对于遭受灾难的学生是一种有希望的方法，因为即使在被2011年海啸摧毁的社区中漫步后，孩子们仍然对社区保持着深厚的感情，并且他们变得积极地为社区的重建做出了贡献。该研究还发现，2018年参加2013年计划的九年级学生对计划的经历持积极态度，因为他们认为小组合作和保存重建记录很重要。该计划的经历影响了九年级学生长期为社区做出贡献的意愿。但是，他们的防灾减灾行为影响不大。