Psychology 409a,
My Seventh Outline of Assigned
By Julia Dailey
Building Supportive Drivers
Leon
James and Diane Nahl (2000). Road Rage and Aggressive Driving: Steering
Clear of Highway Warfare .
Instructions for this
activity are found at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy23/409a-g23-oral.htm
Instructor: Dr. Leon
James
Concept One: Elementary School
A. Creating supportive drivers can start early; and school need to realize this. Rather than one class in high school this theory wants education to start in kindergarten.
B. In class focus on cognitive explanations and use sensory-motor demonstrations to show how we can be better passengers, reduce competition, and encourage sympathy and compassion.
C.
This was a totally new concept to me. I had never considered schools teaching
children at such a young age about driving.
Concept Two: Middle School
A.
In middle school you can obviously increase the level of information
the kids are responsible for knowing.
B. Critical analysis of driving incidents, acknowledgement of rights of different groups found on the roads, and defense of social responsibility.
C. It is more and more important as kids get closer to driving to teach the self witnessing and critical analysis of situations, these are such important skills.
Concept Three: High School
A. This is when most kids will begin driving, this is the first hands on experience but there must be a continuation of the critical analysis and self-regulation.
B. The motor skills of being a driver are most important at this stage, what traditional classes have been doing is still applicable in this part of education.
C. I think that by the time kids had reached this point in school with the back ground they had already acquired they would be some of the best drivers on the road.
Class Links:
Related Links:
http://www.dmv.org/driver-education.php
http://www.ntsb.gov/Events/symp_driver_ed/presentations/speech_harvey.pdf