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Smit, S.J.
Van der Walt, J.L.
Eggink, Riette
10055150 - Van der Walt, Johannes Lodewicus (Supervisor)
2023-05-04T11:17:34Z
2023-05-04T11:17:34Z
1990
http://hdl.handle.net/10394/41236
MEd, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus
The problem addressed in this research is: "What is the 'place' of traffic safety
education within the epistemological area of the science of education?" The primary
aim of this research has been to determine, by means of scientific-theoretical
reflection, whether traffic safety education is an applied science within the field of
education, covering all acknowledged sub-disciplines of education; whether it is an
independent discipline; or whether it is a component or a theme of socio-education.
As indicated in the introductory chapter, this research basically covers three
sections, Le. the anthropological foundation of traffic safety education (and its
science), the subject-philosophical, and the scientific-theoretical bases of traffic
safety education. The above-mentioned three facets are distinguishable (although in
continuous coherence) and discussed in successive chapters with emphasis on the
scientific-theoretical nature of traffic safety education.
In chapter 2 the research focuses on man and his/her involvement in traffic. Apart
from a few non-christian views on man and their implications for traffic safety
education and its science, man as "phenomenon" is studied from a Christian-anthropological
perspective under the following headings:
- Road traffic as product of human culture.
- Man as communicating or social being.
- The question concerning human safety in road traffic.
- Man as "treasurer" of the phenomenon of traffic safety.
Before traffic safety education can be guaged scientific-theoretically, it is imperative
to analyse its field of work - that is, traffic safety education - subject-philosophically.
Chapter 3 deals with fundamental questions concerning the activity, operation and
field of work within traffic safety education. Within a subject-philosophical approach
this study further reflects upon the role of education in the attainment of traffic safety.
Masters
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North-West University (South Africa).
Die wetenskapsteoretiese grondslae van die verkeersveiligheidsopvoedkunde
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