Okay – so the whole point of learner agency is that learners are positioned in a social structure with the power to flourish. What more important context could there possibly be than in the field of Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction. (CCDRR) I’m going to refer to it as CDR because the extra two letters kind of fit in anyway!
A working question might be the following: If we enact learner agency in primary school children, are they empowered to respond to hazards in a way that informs resilience and reduces harm?
Put differently, the measure of a disaster is the impact of the hazard on the vulnerable. Large hazard and high vulnerability the greater the disaster. As it turns out, children form part of the vulnerability quotient. Increasing their power to act in relation to hazards, will reduce their vulnerability.