THIS PRESENTATION

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NEW TEACHING METHODS FOR A SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
EDUCATION USING CREATIVE MEDIA
Gudrun Uranitsch
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OVERVIEW MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN SCHOOLS

• Traffic and Mobility Education
• Problems
• Approach
• Campaigns, Projects and Material

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TRAFFIC EDUCATION - MOBILITY EDUCATION

• Traffic Education Teaching Principle within
  Safety Education (Austrian School Law)
• The Problem No Correlation with Environmental
  Education
• The Aim Safety and Prevention of Accidents
• The Problem To Adapt children as weak traffic
  participants

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TEACHERS ARE CAR-DRIVERS
They believe that the car isthe ideal means of
transport
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CHILDREN AS CAR PASSENGERS
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1950 Children City
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2003 Car City
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ESTABLISH AWARENESS...

• Who is to blame?

5 before school starts...
... and 5 after
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CHILDRENS TRAFFIC KNOW HOW AND BEHAVIOUR

• Is it possible to adapt children to traffic?

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METHOD ACTION RESEARCH
Participation as a central elementTrigger
Concrete Situation Researcher Involved in the
process

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PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN
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ACTIONS CAMPAIGNS CAR FREE SCHOOL DAY
...instead of a parking lot
schoolyard...
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OPEN AIR - LESSONS STREET PAINTING
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CAR FREE MONTH
Schoolway on foot Lets walk!
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TEACHERS COME BY BIKE TO SCHOOL
...for teacherswho cycled to school
Self-made stickersas a reward...
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RESULTS OF PUPILS BEHAVIOUR
during
before
after CFM
They want to assume responsibility for an
ecologically sound behaviour
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WALKING POOLS

Not even crutches can keep meat home!
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RENTAL OF BICYCLE TRAILERS
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TRAFFIC NOISE AND HEALTH
Monstrous KRAKADAU... ...eating its way
through traffic noise
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FANTASY FIGURES AS IMAGE BUILDER
These are your rules and rights in traffic! You
can choose!
Protect yourself with a helmet! Keep at home!
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THE KIDS PROBLEMS

• Favourite Mode70 Bicycle

Biggest Nuisances50 Exhaust Fumes,Noise, Cars
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AND WISHES
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TRADITIONAL BICYCLE EDUCATION
in protected areas
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BICYLE TRAINING IN REAL TRAFFIC
team 9 cycle
trainers 45 schools 1800
pupils per year preparation
schoolyard of each school main training area
real traffic on the
roads in the schools sourroundings (tempo 30
zones!) financiers EC,
city of Graz, government of Styria
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FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS

insurance issues regular lesson (swimming
lessons, sports) pupils are insured
parents sign a declaration cycle
trainers authorisation act as
teachers cooperation ministery of
transport ministery of education local
school authority
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