Traffic fable

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The traffic fable is a method introduced into traffic education by the didactician Siegbert A. Warwitz in the early 1990s for mentally dealing with problems in traffic. Based on the literary form of the fable , the didactic basis for one's own creations is provided with the possibility of thinking receptively beyond practical traffic education, but also constructively and creatively about coexistence while driving. In the objective similar to the priority in the primary used transport Kasper , traffic fable serves mainly the development of awareness and partnership behavior in the secondary area .

Didactic target perspective

Today's traffic pedagogy is based on the basic term "traffic" as "dealing with one another", "communicating", "cooperating", which means having to start educationally before and outside of the encounter with traffic. Accordingly, the traffic fable is not just about misconduct in road traffic, but more complexly about general interaction (traffic) with one another. Attitudes such as beneficial thinking, irregularity, aggressiveness, recklessness, intolerance, damage to property, endangerment, weaknesses such as fears and insecurities, but also social virtues such as partnership and helpfulness play an important role. The poetic design of your own traffic fables is possible from around the age of nine and is most effective in small groups.

Attempts are made to recognize, analyze and reflect problems in intercourse with one another and to hold up a mirror to oneself and others that makes one think. For this purpose, well-known fables are processed and personal traffic experiences are condensed into fable form. Here, the possibilities are used to let misconduct punish oneself through corresponding practical constraints from the processes and to formulate the consequences again pointedly through a doctrine. In addition to depicting failed conflict management, positive solutions should also be found. This is the real educational objective.

Methodology and structure of the traffic fable

The material for the traffic fable ideally arises from one's own traffic experiences such as the argument when getting on the school bus, a damaged bike or torn off Mercedes stars. At Warwitz there are "three ways to a traffic fable":

The first is based on a well-known proverb (“When two people quarrel, the third is happy...” Etc.), which is transferred to a traffic situation they have experienced themselves.

A second approach takes an example fable, for example by Jean de La Fontaine , as a model for one's own fable poetry. Available illustrations such as those by the artist Gustave Doré are didactically incorporated as a visual source of ideas.

A third way converts a recognized problem (e.g. “willingness to take risks in traffic”) into fabulous form.

To work on your own fable, a simple structural scheme is given that leaves room for your own solutions, e.g. B.

a. Two road users collide and there is a conflict

b. The conflict is carried out incompatible or willing to compromise

c. Both opponents pay for their intolerance or enjoy the consensus

d. The teaching follows in the form of a proverb or phrase

Example fables

The two goats - Engraving by Gustave Doré 1868 after the fable by Jean de La Fontaine

The famous fable " The Two Goats " by the French poet Jean de La Fontaine can, although not intended, be understood as a traffic fable .

According to this and other templates as well as a given structural scheme, a number of creative creations in the context of traffic education are documented in the literature, e.g. B .:

The two drivers

Two cars met on the narrow bridge over a river. "Make way, I was there first!" Yelled one. "Let's see who has the better nerve!" Replied the other driver. Both then rushed off to the bridge at the same time. There was a loud bang and the cars ended up as wrecks in the river bed.

Teaching: If you get involved in an argument, it will often be your damage.

Hansi and Franzi and Susi on the bus

Hansi and Franzi met at the bus stop. "Today I'm sitting behind the driver!" Said Hansi. "We'll see that first, that's my place!" Replied Franzi. While they were still abusing and fighting each other, Susi got on the bus and sat down behind the driver. But the bus left without them.

Teaching: When two fight, the third is happy.

Educational value

The traffic fable method is characterized by its strict subject orientation, intensive reflection on certain problem constellations in traffic life and the creativity required . The children and adolescents are addressed receptively, constructively and communicatively in small groups. The result is linguistically refined products of artistic value that are worked out together and that are also written in book form and thus can be given a showcase and memorable value. The traffic fable complements the practical traffic education as a method. It also makes traffic behavior recognizable as a component of general human behavior. Used in the context of accident prevention , it achieved didactic importance especially in secondary schools and in teacher training .

literature

  • Siegbert A. Warwitz: We interpret and summarize traffic fables . In: Case – Word – Number 25 (1999) pp. 53–56
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz: The traffic fable or how one can address traffic problems . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act . Baltmannsweiler (Schneider) 2009. 6th edition. Pp. 172-173, 179-181, 273-279

Illustrations

  • Gustave Doré: Illustration (print) “The two goats”. In: E. Dohm (Ed.): La Fontaine. The fables . Wiesbaden or JS 343

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: The traffic fable or how one can address traffic problems . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child . Baltmannsweiler 1998. 3rd edition. Pp. 273-279
  2. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act . 6th edition, Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2009, pp. 275-279
  3. Gustave Doré: Illustration (print) “The two goats”. In: E. Dohm (Ed.): La Fontaine. The fables . Wiesbaden or JS 343
  4. Jean de La Fontaine: The two goats , In: Ders .: The fables . Wiesbaden n.d., pp. 342-343
  5. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: We interpret and dense traffic fables . In: Case-Word-Number 25 (1999) p. 56
  6. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Fables for partner behavior . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child . Baltmannsweiler 2009. pp. 172-173