Becoming a responsible pedestrian (No.09)
Table of contents
- Executive Summary
- 1. Development and changing traffic skills
- 2. "Competence" and "performance"
- 3. Children's understanding of the objectives of road safety
- 4. From avoiding damage to anticipating hazards
- 5. Implications for road safety education
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1 The problem for road safety education research
- 1.2 Choosing responses at the roadside
- 1.3 The aim of this project
- Chapter 2: Is There Developmental Change In What Children Think They Are Supposed To Be Doing In Relation To Road Safety?
- 2.1 Measuring children's representations of road safety
- 2.2 EXPERIMENT 1: Understanding The Goal Of Road Safety
- 2.3 Summary of results and discussion
- 2.4 Conclusions
- Chapter 3: A Replication Of The Developmental Changes In Representations Of The Responsibilities Of The Road User
- 3.1 A clarification of developmental change in representations of the responsibilities of the road user
- 3.2 Confirming the mature representation of road user responsibilities
- 3.3: Experiment 2: Changing interpretations of the origins of accidents in adulthood
- 3.5 Conclusions
- 3.6 Radical discontinuity in childhood?
- 3.7 Experiment 3: Diagnosing the child's view of road user responsibilities
- 3.8 Summary of results and discussion
- 3.9 Conclusions
- Chapter 4: Representations Of Responsibility, Roadside Behaviour And Safety Education In Childhood
- 4.1 Representations, behaviour and education
- 4.2 Taking the child's perspective seriously
- 4.3: Experiment 4: Damage avoidance, error avoidance and the explicit use of information relevant to safety
- Participants 3
- 4.4: Experiment 5: Damage avoidance, error avoidance and understanding the social contract on the roads
- 4.5 Experiment 6: Damage avoidance, error avoidance and training
- 4.6: Conclusions
- Chapter 5: Personal Responsibility, Causal Understanding And Pedestrian Behaviour In Young Teenagers.
- 5.1 Taking responsibility for safety on the roads in early adolescence
- 5.2 Experiment 7: Perceived responsibility, risk taking and accident involvement in adolescence
- 5.5 Conclusions
- Chapter 6: Summary And Conclusions
- 6.1: Developmental change in understanding responsibilities on the road
- 6.2: Representations and roadside reasoning in childhood
- 6.3 Implications for road safety education
- Acknowledgements
- References
