| Title |
Development and Effectiveness Analysis of Workshop Program for Child Safety Map Making |
| Authors |
Son, Dong-Pil ; Lee, Kyung-Hwan ; Chae, Han-Hee |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2019.35.7.109 |
| Keywords |
Child Safety Map Making Education; Recognition of Safety and Dangerous Spaces; Ability to Deal with Dangerous Situation; Understanding of the Neighborhood; Neighborhood Attachment |
| Abstract |
Recently, child safety map making education has attracted attention as a way to reduce crimes against children. In Korea, the Ministry of
Gender Equality and Family organized a child safety map making education program in 2011. The program’s manual was revised in 2013
and the Ministry implemented it as a project to promote the rights of women and children. Child safety map making education aims to
raise a child’s understanding of their neighborhood, to have voluntary control and normal consciousness as a local inhabitant, to be aware of
wrong behavior and crime, and to be part of creating a safe urban environment. However, when compared to educational programs in other
major developed countries, the child safety map making education program in Korea currently does not improve a child’s awareness of their
surroundings. In this workshop study, we proposed and ran a new program to improve children's awareness of their environment based on
the active participation of children in the existing safety map educational program. The workshop was held for 4 weeks for 48 students
from 5th and 6th grade at Osan Daeho Elementary School. We analyzed this new program’s effects with the following results. First, an
analysis of the effects of the program on children's recognition of safe and dangerous spaces revealed that their understanding of these
spaces increased by 30.4% after the workshop. The safety-related factor in the mind map key concept increased from 0.94 to 4.94,
indicating that the children's perception of neighborhood risk and safety factors improved. Second, the analysis of the effects of the program
on the children's coping ability in dangerous situations showed that their understanding of how to deal with dangerous situations increased
by 11.3%. The children’s understanding of facilities they could ask for help, such as police boxes and child safety guard houses, improved
by 17.9%. Third, analysis of the effects of child safety map making education on children's understanding of their neighborhood, their
perception of responsibility in the neighborhood, and their neighborhood attachment showed that these levels of children's understanding of
the neighborhood improved by 6.0% after the workshop. |