Disaster education is a field of education in which teaching and learning are systematically directed toward understanding hazards and disasters, their causes and impacts, and appropriate measures for preparedness, response, recovery, and risk reduction ^[1][2][3][4]. It involves structured curricular and co‑curricular activities that address concepts such as disaster risk, vulnerability, resilience, early warning, and protective actions, and that are designed to develop learners’ knowledge, awareness, and practical capabilities for dealing with disaster situations ^[1][2]. Disaster education is characterized by the intentional use of disaster-related information, scenarios, and experiential methods—such as drills, simulations, and community-based projects—as organized learning resources for fostering risk literacy, safety behaviors, and the ability to act appropriately before, during, and after hazardous events ^[2][3][4]. Within broader educational programmes, disaster education denotes the set of goals, contents, and pedagogical approaches that focus explicitly on hazards and disaster risk management, rather than treating disasters as incidental topics or solely as subjects of historical or geographical description ^[1][2][3][4].