Teachers’ Perception of Factors Delaying Evacuation of School Children
(2023) VBRM01 20232Division of Fire Safety Engineering
- Abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to study teachers’ perception of children’s ability to evacuate, thus learning about children’s evacuation behavior. Questions of interest are teachers’ perception of children’s ability to evacuate, their behavior, if there are any misconceptions in the teachers’ perception and how fire evacuation drills influence the teachers’ perceptions. This was done through a questionnaire study where teachers of children of 6-12 years of age got to answer a questionnaire before and after an ordinary school fire evacuation drill. The results indicated that fire evacuation drills influence the teachers’ perception of children’s behavior and the teachers’ sense of having control over the situation. More experience corresponded... (More)
- The aim of this thesis is to study teachers’ perception of children’s ability to evacuate, thus learning about children’s evacuation behavior. Questions of interest are teachers’ perception of children’s ability to evacuate, their behavior, if there are any misconceptions in the teachers’ perception and how fire evacuation drills influence the teachers’ perceptions. This was done through a questionnaire study where teachers of children of 6-12 years of age got to answer a questionnaire before and after an ordinary school fire evacuation drill. The results indicated that fire evacuation drills influence the teachers’ perception of children’s behavior and the teachers’ sense of having control over the situation. More experience corresponded to less belief in the panic misconception among children during a fire evacuation. The teachers’ answers qualitatively corresponded to the observations made during the fire evacuation drill. After the evacuation drill, the teachers could be assumed to have a perception of children’s behavior which reasonably corresponded to reality. (Less)
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- author
- Mobratt, Rikard LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Lärares Uppfattning av Faktorer som Fördröjer Evakuering av Skolbarn
- course
- VBRM01 20232
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Evacuation, School children, Fire drill, Fire emergency evacuation, Elementary school, Teachers, Questionnaire Utrymning, Skolbarn, Utrymningsövning, Brandutrymning, Grundskola, Lärare, Enkät
- report number
- 5619
- other publication id
- LUTVDG/TVBB—5619—SE
- language
- English
- id
- 9139605
- date added to LUP
- 2023-10-09 09:34:49
- date last changed
- 2023-10-09 09:34:49
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