Luca Pascotto, Study and Research Deptm.

Training and TrainersACI ROAD EDUCATION PROGRAMME - approach and philosophy

Summary

The framework of Italian legislation

ACI approach

Tools

Italian Legislation: key elements Road education compulsory in all schools (Highway Code,

art.230)

Ministry of Education does not provide official manuals or books. Only guide lines for road education referents at different level of schools

Italian legislation consider road education as part of a wider framework, speaking of “civic education” as a sum of lessons learnt in various fields

Specific role of the school system: to organize courses for obtaining the AM driving license for moped (14-18 age).

What is Traffic Education?

“civic education”

road education

environmental education

affection education

nutritional education

citizenship educationhealth education

ROAD EDUCATION

Road accidents represent a cultural problem and if we want to solve a cultural problem we need actions aimed to change people behaviors. It is not enough to act for a limited period of time, but we need a continuous education that have to start from children. So, the school system play a fundamental role. ACI’s target is to act on behaviours to change road people culture.

Road education means not only technical knowledges or driving abilities, but also a more general and wider education concerning the relationship that a person have with himself and with other people inside a society, included affective, social, civil , ethics issues of a person. The aim is to teach a person to respect himself, to respect the others and to respect things because this represent a great value for people to live together inside a society in a civil way. School system play an important role not so much for teaching technical role or behaviours, but for developing a civic and democratic conscience. Road education is aimed to help road users to became responsible and so to develop among people safe and responsible behaviours.

ACI approach

“Road education cannot be confined to teach mere technical facts or skills, instead, it must be aimed at a more refined form of education based on a balanced

relationship with oneself and the others, in a complex system of organized social life where a serious “safety

culture” holds a central position and where such important factors as knowledge of our own person, of

our hometown, of the roads in our neighborhood and the links existing between its inhabitants are perceived and

valued as assets belonging to everybody”

The role of the school system

to communicate to up-date to inform to train

to educate

share or exchange information, news, or ideas

give (someone) the latest information about something

give (someone) facts or information;

teach a particular skill or type of behaviour through practice and instruction over a period of time

give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, esp. a child), typically at a school

Road Education: key factors

knowledges skills attitudes

Rules (Traffic Code)Risks on the roadswhat happen if.....

....

Ability on driving concentration

breaking distance...

MotivationsAwareness

Make youth responsiblehow to get the school?

...

...Road Education is quite a complex Subject......

HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS?

Are the next pictures connected to traffic

education?

1748 d.C. Map of Rome

Milan: 1573 d.C.

Milan, today

Home

School

Home-School trip

To Educate to live the city

Starting from the city (roads; planning; buildings; parks; ...) in order to transmit to the students the notion of road, town, traffic through the different subjects: history, geography, literature, maths, science, arts; motor education

Road education as an activity that can produce a change in personal behaviour over the time.....it takes time to do it

The approach: Transversality. We need to insert safe mobility in the most important school subjects during the ordinary lessons....only in this way we can educate (and not inform, teach, train,....)

....practically:

What we normally have to treat.....

Signs of warning, bans, prescriptions

Signs of direction

Right of way rules

Behavioural rules

Luminous and horizontal signs

stopping and halting signs, road definition

Causes of road accidents

Moped

Behaviour of moped and motorcicle riders

The value of rules

Respect for human life and civic behaviour

Environmental protection

... categories

1.Roads and environment

2.People and rules

3.Vehicle

4.Health

5.Highway Code and Behaviour Rules

6.Road signs

ROADS AND ENVIRONMENT

PEOPLE AND RULES

VEHICLE HEALTHBEHAVIOUR

RULESSIGNS

ITALIANbuildings and

traffic: two faces of the same coin

rules & community

people and motion

substance and pollution

learn the Highway Code

rulessign language

SECOND LANGUAGE

urban life in other States

European legislation

modes of transport

environmental protection in EU

European rules other signs

HISTORYroad as a part of

the cityethical value in

the past

modes of transport in the

history

different kind of pollution in the

history

behaviour rules in the history

signs in the past

GEOGRAPHYcities and road

planningeconomy and

societyLand and vehicle

fleeteffects of the

trafficroads and

Highway Code

representation of the territorial phenomenons

MATHS & PHYSIC

territorial phenomenons

speedphysics and

motion

how to evaluate the

environmental pollution

physical and geometrical limit in the Highway

Code

geometrical figures and signs

SCIENCEhow roads are

builtroad accidents

knowing the vehicle

driving driving power and pollution

materials

ARTS cities for citizen visual messageknowing the

different modes of transport

sensorial effects of colors and

forms

illustration of the rules

signs and semiology

MOTOR SCIENCE

To orient oneself in the

spacegroup and rules driving a vehicle safe driving

elements of safe driving

sign perception

Secondary School: years 3 and 4 out of 5

Students are asked to list road users. The list is copied onto the blackboard splitting the entries between those referred to vehicles and those referred to people. Usually, answers of the second type are prevalent (pedestrian, cyclist, motorcyclist)...Students are invited to think about how the road has lost its role as a place for socialization that it had in the past

Training Courses

Target: teachers - reference of traffic education.

2 days at local level; trainer: ACI + local experts

First day: how to realize an educational intervention? which aspect have we to consider? how to create an internal network (cooperation with the other teachers)? how to create an external network (expert from outside the schools)? how to get financial resources?

Second day: more in deep with traffic education matters and give examples of trasversality approach. Practical exercises and focus group among the participants

Other Tools for trainer

Specific Manuals for teachers and for driving schools teacher

Luca Pascotto, ACI - l.pascotto@aci.it

“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,

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