Articles

=Articles=

These articles are meant to lead the readers into the philosophy of traffic safety education that includes four levels of behaviour:


 * 1) task-related behaviour,
 * 2) situation-specific behaviour,
 * 3) context-related behaviour, and
 * 4) general goals for life and skills for living

Together, these four levels form the so-called GDE Matrix (Goals for Driver Education) or, as we have altered the original matrix a little bit, GTSE Martix (Goals for Traffic Safety Education). This means that the focus is on training //responsible traffic users// who understand that traffic is a social setting where mutual respect and proactive behaviour are important.

Philosophical basis
The first article “The Basis of Traffic Safety Education” by PhD Marko Susimetsä explains this philosophy and teaching model in more detail and also presents the GTSE Matrix and basic principles of the Curricula presented in this Wiki.


 * [[file:basisoftrafficsafetyeducation.pdf]]

Considerations of traffic safety education for different age groups
The following articles present more specific descriptions of the different age groups for which the curricula and learning materials are designed. These are written by PhD Mika Hatakka, who is a widely known traffic psychologists and one of the creators of the original GDE (Goals for Driver Education) Matrix, upon which the GTSE (Goals for Traffic Safety Education) Matrix is based.


 * [[file:Children_traffic_safety_and_traffic_education.pdf]]
 * [[file:Teenagers_traffic_safety_and_traffic_education.pdf]]
 * [[file:Young_adults_traffic_safety_and_traffic_education.pdf]]

Physics and traffic safety education
Ivan Kolarov from the Higher School of Transport, Bulgaria, wrote two articles that were presented during the running of the project at two different seminars. These deal with traffic safety education from the point of view of physics and multimedia physics demonstrations. The articles are intended for the education of teenagers (13-17 year olds).


 * [[file:Multimedia_on_physics_for_traffic_safety_education.pdf]]
 * [[file:Physics_and_traffic_safety_education.pdf]]