Road Safety Education in Cambodia through Inquiry-Based Learning
Background and Objectives
In recent years, motorization has progressed rapidly in Southeast Asia, resulting in a variety of transportation issues. In Cambodia especially, the amount of damage caused by traffic accidents is increasing year by year, and is expected to reach approximately 69 billion yen by 2023.
This study will promote inquiry-based problem-solving learning within schools to further increase road safety literacy among Cambodian children. It will encourage children to think for themselves about “what needs to be done” to reduce traffic accidents and to take action. The purpose of this study is to raise children's safety awareness and traffic safety literacy, as well as to contribute to reducing traffic accidents in the community.
Expected Results
The outcome will be the development of a children-centered, self-designed traffic safety education program and its implementation in the local community. First, the children themselves will think about what they can do to improve road safety literacy within their schools, and then take action themselves. Then, they will communicate the importance of traffic safety to the community and devise strategies to solve traffic problems and put them into practice.
Problem-solving inquiry-based learning within schools will utilize and develop programs that have been implemented in collaboration with JICA to date, and proposals and implementation of policies for the local community will be carried out with the cooperation of CIAA. As a result, it is expected that the program will contribute to the improvement of road safety literacy among Cambodian children, and international literacy will also be enhanced through exchanges with Japanese high school students. It is also expected that a variety of practices will be implemented, and we are considering collecting the most outstanding initiatives to create and publish a “Collection of Good Practices.”