ERIC Number: ED391582
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994-Aug-24
Pages: 57
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Developing Strategies for Young Children To Deal with the Dangers of Strangers.
Breese, Julie; And Others
This report describes the implementation of a child safety-abduction awareness curriculum. The targeted population consisted of primary grade students in a growing, middle class, rural community located in northern Illinois. Assessment of students' skills revealed a lack of strategies to avoid child abduction. Analysis of probable cause data revealed student inability to use an appropriate strategy when presented with a child lure scenario. The faculty reported that no curriculum was being taught to improve these strategies for child safety. A review of solution strategies, combined with an analysis of the problem setting, resulted in the development and implementation of a child safety curriculum for the targeted grades of kindergarten, second and fourth. Determining curriculum effectiveness involved the assessment of students' use of strategies to avoid abduction. Post-intervention data indicated an increase in students' awareness and ability to use an appropriate strategy when presented with a child lure scenario. (Sixteen appendices include copies of the parent and teacher surveys, student interview, rubrics, safety posters, parent newsletter, and newsletter survey. Contains 18 references.) (Author/AA)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Safety, Consciousness Raising, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Traits, Prevention, Safety Education, Skill Development, Social Behavior, Social Development, Stranger Reactions, Stress Variables, Teaching Methods, Training Methods
Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Masters Theses; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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