University students teching road safety education in primary education Case study: Trece de Abril elementay school (Loja-Ecuador)
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Road safety education has a key role to reduce deaths due to traffic accidents. Several countries worldwide have programs to teach road safety to pedestrians and drivers at various levels: elementary school, high school, for license driver registration, among others; however, most of them are countries with high per capita income. In Ecuador, as a low-income country, road education is taught primarily in elementary schools, however, it is not mandatory for all. In this context, this work aimed was teach road safety in a elementary school. To fulfill this objective, students of Civil Engineering major at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja were instructed to teach road safety at the "Trece de Abril" school in the Loja Canton (Ecuador). The university students prepared didactic material and use it in their road safety classes. At the end of the project, a great success was noticed by children and the teaching school staff, it was also a great satisfaction for the university students, who felt useful for the society.
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