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This project aimed to understand children and young people’s flood experiences and the concomitant impacts of floods on their education, following the
devastating February 2022 floods in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales (NSW) and Southeast Queensland, Australia.
The Northern Rivers town of Lismore was considered the flooding event’s epicentre and has formed the focus of this research. Almost 1000 schools and early
childhood education and care (ECEC) settings were either deemed unsalvageable, temporarily closed, or significantly disrupted.
The SCU Vice Chancellor’s Flood Recovery Scheme provided funding support for the Floods + Me project to bring children’s and young people’s voices to the fore as the education sector rebuilt itself across the Northern Rivers. The project brought together a team of leading researchers on climate change education and disaster recovery from SCU’s Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education Research Centre (SEAE), RMIT’s Climate Change Research Network and Climate Impacts Observatory, Latrobe University’s Climate Lab, The University of Sydney, and Victoria University. Northern Rivers children and young people generated an extensive, artsbased, quantitative and qualitative data suite.
The Floods + Me Education Framework seeks to advise and support the well-being and education of children and young people impacted by flood disasters.
The research has generated a rich tapestry of children and young people’s flood stories that coalesce around key themes: gaps in learning, community support and resilience, displacement, and climate education.
- Flood Ready: Floods + Me Education Framework
- A Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles - Southern Cross UniversityA Lasczik - Southern Cross UniversityL Rickards - La Trobe UniversityD S Rousell - Southern Cross UniversityS M Blom - Southern Cross UniversityC Bayes - Southern Cross UniversityL de Kleyn - La Trobe UniversityL de Rivera - Southern Cross UniversityK Hotko - Southern Cross UniversityY Ofosu-Asare - Southern Cross UniversityH Widdop-Quinton - Victoria UniversityJ St Clair - Southern Cross UniversityB Verlie - University of Sydney
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- Southern Cross University; Lismore, Australia
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