Education is one of the 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 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 behaviour of pedestrians,by creating conditions for pupils to build their own system of knowledge, leaning from results of stdying of a road environment and traffic situations with participation of pedestrian pupils and the experience received by pupils in a real road environment on the journey to school was, more effectively, in comparison with the education, based on direct transfer of system of knowledge by oral methods by the teacher (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E217780.
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