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How do young people understand and explain risk?

Presented by:. Dr Jenny McWhirter Risk Education Adviser THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS. How do young people understand and explain risk?. Risky research. Uses an illuminative approach to children’s understanding of risk

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How do young people understand and explain risk?

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  1. Presented by: Dr Jenny McWhirter Risk Education Adviser THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS How do young people understand and explain risk?

  2. Risky research • Uses an illuminative approach to children’s understanding of risk • ‘Draw and write’ starts where children are, not where experts are • Useful with all age groups • Provides both quantitative and qualitative data RoSPA’s mission is to save lives and reduce injuries

  3. A brief history of draw and write • Devised in 1986 as part of a curriculum development project about health for children aged 4-11 years. • 10,000 participants aged 4-8 years were in danger of being ignored because they could not use questionnaires • As a response children were asked to: • Draw: a picture of a healthy person • Write: what makes the person healthy and keeps them healthy? • Adults acted as scribes for children who could not ( or preferred not to) write. RoSPA’s mission is to save lives and reduce injuries

  4. Are you ready? • Draw a picture of someone your own age, doing something risky • Write what is happening in the picture • Write what makes it risky • Put yourself in the picture. What would you be doing or saying to help if you were there? RoSPA’s mission is to save lives and reduce injuries

  5. Highest scoring hazard categories In a sample of 6,000 11-19 year olds: • High places • Misbehaviour • Road (age 11 and 17+) • Tobacco (age 13) • Illegal drugs (age 15) RoSPA’s mission is to save lives and reduce injuries

  6. Variables • Gender • Age • Socio-economic status? RoSPA’s mission is to save lives and reduce injuries

  7. What is ‘risk’? • ‘Whereas danger is an unambiguous state of peril, risk alerts us to uncertainty about whether the future is safe or dangerous. It simultaneously points to the possibility of security and insecurity’. Carter, 1995 RoSPA’s mission is to save lives and reduce injuries

  8. Thank you! • Contact details; • jmcwhirter@rospa.com • www.rospa.com/safetyeducation/ RoSPA’s mission is to save lives and reduce injuries

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