Applications for the Role of the Fairy Tale Type in the Development of Traffic Awareness of Children

Traffic accidents that lead to various losses occur every year in Turkey. Undoubtedly, the way to reduce these accidents at least is through o good traffic education from childhood. The earlier traffic education is given, the more permanent it affects the children. Primary school age, in which basic skills are acguired and reinforced has great importance in terms of traffic education. During the traffic education from the primary school in Turkey, it poses a requirement in terms of winning the children's traffic awareness. The contribution of the products addressing the sensitivity of the children in the delivery of traffic education is great. Taking advantage of children's products in traffic education will make the message desired to be more permanent. In this pespect; fairy tales, of one the children’s literature products appear as an important genre. In this regard; it is possible to maket he traffic education and awareness gained with children’s literature products are more permanent. During Turkish education and training process, tales contribute to the development of children in many areas of life. Through fairy tale texts; in this study, it is aimed to present examples of activites that are through to contribute to the development of traffic awareness of children in Turkish education and training process, within an institutional frame work. This study is a deseriptive study prepared by scanning model. These datas obtained from; Turkish teaching, four basic language skills, traffic awareness and safety issues through scientific publications, textbooks and internet. Starting from the entertaining and educational works of fairy tales, it is aimed to give children the best traffic awareness by increasing their interests and tastes with examples of fairy tales and activities.

Keywords

Children’s literature , traffic education, traffic awareness, tale, children.