The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new contents in the subject of road safety education in schools: To develop a systematic concept of traffic, as explicit, basic and introductory contents, and as the main subject around which different approaches to teachings on safety and road safety will revolve, in order for these educational processes to be successful and result in safe and responsible attitudes and behaviors on the part of students, in their behavior on the road and the role they play in the creation of a healthier social and living environment. This approach has been successfully applied in Argentina for twelve years now, with children and teenagers ages 6-18, and has been promoted among teachers and public officials, as part of the road safety education and awareness program developed by Luchemos por la Vida, a non-profit organization devoted to help prevent traffic accidents. This is the result of observation and analysis of traffic problems in Argentina: both pedestrians and drivers behave in an anarchic and individualistic way, ignoring others and thus causing thousands of accidents that produce terribly high rates of morbid mortality. (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E216632.
Samenvatting