Educationalising death. The emergence of traffic education in Swedish elementary schools.

Autor/in	Landahl, Joakim
Titel	Educationalising death. The emergence of traffic education in Swedish elementary schools.
Quelle	In: Nordic Journal of Educational History, 9 (2022) 2, S. 107-123 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 122-123
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2001-9076
DOI	10.36368/njedh.v9i2.277
Schlagwörter	Bildungspolitik; Grundschule; Schulbuch; Verkehrserziehung; Schweden
Abstract	When a social problem is educationalised, i.e. formulated as a responsibility for educational institutions, knowledge becomes a solution for societal ills. This article examines the history of traffic education in Swedish elementary schools as a particular form of knowledge. Focusing on the three first decades of traffic education, the ambition is to delve deeper into the issue of what constituted traffic knowledge during a period of mass motorisation. In teaching about traffic, what were the main things that had to be conveyed? What were the main challenges in teaching the essentials of traffic, and what techniques were used to make traffic possible to understand for an audience of children? Drawing on handbooks for teachers and textbooks in traffic education, the article discusses five forms of knowledge that were used in traffic education: knowledge about risk, juridical knowledge, visual knowledge, moral knowledge, and practical knowledge.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2023/1