ABSTRACT Student participation in municipal disaster drills can enhance geographic skill sets as well as build community resilience to local hazards. In these drills, students often assume the role of victims to help test local emergency response services. Teaching in an interdisciplinary department, we incorporate these field-based learning opportunities into undergraduate courses that draw heavily on geographic concepts yet reside outside of traditional geographic departments. Given that students enrolled in these courses possess varied backgrounds in geography, we incorporate basic geographic literacy into our course designs and found that municipal disaster drills serve as an impactful field-based learning experience. Though pedagogical observations of students’ understanding of geographic concepts prior to, during, and following disaster drills, we critically examine how this experiential learning activity can enhance students’ understanding of human–environment interaction, political geography, and cultural geography.

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灾难演习作为地理教育的体验式学习机会

摘要 学生参与市政灾难演习可以提高地理技能，并建立社区对当地灾害的抵御能力。在这些演习中，学生经常扮演受害者的角色来帮助测试当地的应急响应服务。在跨学科系教学，我们将这些基于实地的学习机会融入本科课程中，这些课程在很大程度上借鉴了地理概念，但又位于传统地理系之外。鉴于参加这些课程的学生具有不同的地理背景，我们将基本的地理知识融入我们的课程设计中，并发现市政灾难演习是一种有影响力的实地学习体验。尽管在教学之前、期间对学生对地理概念的理解进行了教学观察，