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Abstract Education should not only teach students to be confident and strong， to forge ahead bravely and to understand the value of life， but also guide students to learn to be sentimental， compassionate， soft-hearted and to understand the meaning of life. These two ways can be called “obverse education” and “reverse education” respectively. It is appropriate to understand disaster education from the perspective of reverse education. From this perspective， disaster education refers to the education that enables students to feel the disasters suffered by mankind， to be conscious of the fragility of life and the powerlessness of human beings， so as to awaken students’ life consciousness and enhance their compassion and empathy. The important value of disaster education lies in making students experience the vulnerability， helplessness， pain and despair of human beings， and thereby learn to sympathize， to care， and to feel the smallness of life and the greatness of human nature. Besides， it also helps students grow more strong-minded and more moral by strengthening their consciousness of life， so that they can leap into a new stage， a new realm of development. Disaster education functions in a non-continuous way to foster students’ growth， takes the emotional transformation as a fulcrum to improve their disasters-overcoming ability， and leads students to cherish life in the way of backing to the starting point of education. In order to implement disaster education， apart from establishing a correct concept and choosing appropriate education forms， we should use approaches such as situational experience， imaginary experience and action experience to arouse students’ compassion and their respect for life.
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Received: 23 September 2021
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2021, Vol. 60 
