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Disaster education can be understood as one of the main topics of science communication. Disaster education as communication between experts and non- experts and among each of them are recently in discussion. However, there are few fundamental discussions such as what communication is or what education is. As this reflection, most of current practices of disaster education are still based on the deficit model. The experts think non-experts do not have enough knowledge of disasters or disaster management, and this is the main cause of failure of disaster management.

The purpose of this presentation is to propose another perspective on disaster education as a counterpart of current educational practice. The current disaster education can roughly be defined as knowledge transfer from the experts of disaster management to lay people which based on the deficit model. However, it can easily prove that the effect of the knowledge transfer type of disaster education is limited by the lessons learned from recent disasters such as 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan. In order to improve the situation related to disaster management, the cause of limited effect of traditional disaster education is discussed based on the time theory of disaster management. In addition, WebGIS system, which is called "Ai-Map System", is also introduced as a support tool for implementing new disaster education. Lastly an action research of disaster education using the Ai-Map System will be introduced as an example of the new disaster education practice.