Road safety in public education - how to teach children to travel safely?

The high frequency of road accidents justifies the importance of education for safe road safety, which can play an extremely important role in childhood. The aim of the authors' research was to examine textbooks of public education in Hungary through in-depth and qualitative content analysis of these documents, based on the requirements of the Hungarian National Core Curriculum. The analysis shows that the textbooks cover only a few areas of knowledge related to passenger transport. Causes of child accidents and environmental aspects of transport are barely mentioned. Parents’ role in road safety education has been found to be too strong, making it less clear to what extent skills are being acquired. The textbooks do not present the specificities of urban and rural transport and their differences, and language use is too complex in some publications, which may be less suitable for children.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.368
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146523006658
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  • © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Miskolczi, Márk
  • Déri, András
  • Bauer, Béla
  • Krizsik, Nóra
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA Lisbon 2022)
  • Location: Lisbon , Portugal
  • Date: 2022-11-14 to 2022-11-17
• Publication Date: 2023

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 4089-4095
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway safety; Safety education; School children; Textbooks
• Geographic Terms: Hungary
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01905092
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 19 2024 4:35PM