Report on operational recommendations to enhance children, youth and teachers involvement in wildfire risk management through communication actions (D17)

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After the meticulous studio submitted in the D4.1 State of the art on fire risk communication to children, youth and teachers, the implementation of political strategies and operative recommendations that develop those strategies in order to include forest fires knowledge in students scholar curriculum was concluded.
Countries with a wide experience like USA, Australia and Canada, lay bare that education in this topic contributes to achieve resilient societies against wildland fires.
The purpose of this document is to purpose a teaching program for teachers, children and youth.
In the first place, in order to accomplish the suggested goals, a learning program pointed to teachers is purposed. Whether they shall transfer scientific investigations and operational experience to children, a wide knowledge with correct concepts encompassing the whole range of approaches about wildland fires must be implemented.
On the other hand, a student scholar program is purposed, with concepts that must be included at each grade, adjusted to their age abilities and knowledge, in order to reach the final goal of getting a society that considers wildland fires not as a dramatic event but as a natural fact.
Finally, the guidelines of an assessment system are purposed. Educational program must be evaluated and its implementation adjusted, including learning techniques, pedagogical methodologies and the wide range of factors that affect to the program success.

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