Abstract

CEBALLOS GARCIA, Luis. Comités Escolares de Prevención de Accidentes y Lesiones (COMPALES). Gac Méd Caracas [online]. 2005, vol.113, n.1, pp.85-113. ISSN 0367-4762.

The teaching learning pattern that is presented as an educational strategy for the prevention of accidents and unintentional injuries in children and in adolescents has, as action axis, the binomial home-school, transforming the teachers into facilitators of the program, the students in receivers and promoters of the information, and the parents in companions of the process. It incorporates statistical indicators of accidentally to incentives in the educational communities, the competition for the achievement of the best numbers of student hours without accidents. In order to stimulate the learning of the basic concepts of prevention, we appeal to the use of poetical resources

Keywords : Accidents. ; Unintentional injuries; Teaching resources; Accidentality; Prevention; Children; Adolescents.