The Mapfre Foundation has presented a joint study on attitudes, habits and perceptions of teachers, students and parents around road education.
The report shows that more than half of parents recognize that their children correct them in their behavior.
The research has been directed to make a diagnosis of the evolution of the culture in road safety of these three groups closely involved parents, teachers and students)
The 1800 people participating in the research have answered questions such as: What risk behaviors do children and adults manifest? Or from whom do children learn the rules of movement and safety? According to the study, parents delegate their responsibility in road education because they believe that those who have the authority and knowledge to teach it are schools and traffic authorities. The schools spend less than three hours a quarter to teach this subject and those responsible believe that the current contents on road education are effective because they have a practical reflection on the behavior of the whole family.
Road Education in Schools
The research shows that teachers use all kinds of resources, and that new technologies have broken into more force than in other materials when serving as support.
In general, teachers propose to focus activities on practices and increase the number of teaching hours for road education.
The teachers think that the current contents and pedagogies on road education are effective because they have a practical reflex in student road behavior
Apparently, the vast majority of students (95%) like the way traffic rules and road safety are taught. Among his favorite activities to learn this subject, is the practice through ICT.
The children become educators
Most children ever correct their parents so that "Do not talk on your mobile when driving" (40 percent), so that they "wait for the traffic light to turn green to cross the crosswalk" (31 percent) and so that "when they drive they don't get mad at other drivers" (30 percent).
Of course, children approve their parents and teachers, although they give them a lower grade
Risk factors in road behavior
It should be noted that 48 percent of students do not wear a helmet when they ride a bicycle, and 27% only do so from time to time.
And in the car we find parents and teachers who exceed speed limits when driving, and 20% of respondents who do not wear a belt.
42 percent of students say their parents answer urgent calls while driving in the 'hands-free' mode.
The problems of road behavior that parents, teachers and students observe most frequently are “walking in the middle of the street or crossing through inappropriate places” (55%) or “not looking at crossing zebra crossings” (44%). Although it should also be mentioned that (and Eroski Consumer already warned of this), school environments are dangerous.
The last conclusion of this study by the Mapfre Foundation is based on the following statement: 'Road education programs with articulated and continuous interventions improve both the behavior of students and their level of sensitivity towards the importance of road safety'.
As many of you know, the Foundation's road safety institute Road education has been working for decades direct actions in educational centers . For more than three years these actions have been integral programs carried out during the school year in the classrooms throughout Spain through the Road Education program in the classroom
This project aims to lay the foundations for an observatory, which not only serves to have diagnostic data, but operational information for an effective educational intervention.
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