AN ASSESSMENT OF ROAD SAFETY TEACHING IN FRENCH SCHOOLS

In France, road safety teaching is compulsory in schools. A few years ago, teachers received guidelines to provide it in a new way, where coping with traffic is regarded as the main objective. The aim of this paper is to display the results of a survey done in a French district to assess the number of schools teaching traffic safety, and the training objectives carried out by the teachers. Methods used include both mailed questionnaires and indirect interviews with teachers. From the results, teacher interest is higher than expected (75 percent survey return). But teachers still have a conservative view of their work and their training objectives.

• Corporate Authors:

  Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)

  Linköping,   Sweden  SE-581 95
• Authors:
  • de Lavalette, B C
• Conference:
  • Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) and Traffic Safety on Two Continents, Proceedings of the Conference
  • Location: Hague, Netherlands
  • Date: 1993-9-22 to 1993-9-24
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 274-284

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Safety education; School children; Teachers; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Child safety
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00666144
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: VTI 1A, Part 2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 21 1994 12:00AM