%0 Journal Article
%T Road Safety Education in a Primary School of Lithuania: Situation and Experimental Development of Child Pedestrian Road Safety Competence
%J Proceedings of the Road Safety on Four Continents Conference
%D 2005
%A Vilkonis, Rytis
%V 13
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%P 8p-8p
%X The education is one of road safety strategies. However, some of the documents and scientific findings revealed the chaotic, desultory and theoretically groundless road safety education in general school of Lithuania. The aim of this research is to disclose the assumptions for development of the child as pedestrian road safety competence in the primary school and their improvement, to interpret these assumptions theoretically and to examine in conditions of the natural educational experiment. Results of educational experiment are submitted in this clause. It was established that education of road safety in a primary school, based on the development of child competence in the field of safe behavior of pedestrians, creating conditions for pupils to build own system of knowledge, leaning from results of studying of a road environment and traffic situations of road incidents with participation of pedestrian pupils and the experience received by pupils in a real road environment from the home up to school and aback, more effectively, in comparison with the education, based on direct transfer of system of knowledge by the oral methods by the teacher.<p />
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%I Conference Sponsor
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%U http://dx.doi.org/