Child road safety education is one of the special aims for the comprehensive school. The education is one of the strategies of the traffic safety. Pedestrians are the most vulnerable category of traffic participants. Lithuania distinguishes by the biggest number of injuries of the pedestrians during accidents among other European countries. Considering the fact that formal obeying to the road traffic rules doesn’t guarantee the safety of the pedestrians, the most dangerous place for the pedestrian is the zebra crossing. Safe pedestrian traffic on the motor roads even formally obeying the Road Traffic Rules requires certain competence of road safety. People – pedestrians, their abilities to move safely in the dangerous environment of the motor road traffic are the most important factor in securing the safety of pedestrians. As demonstrated by the experience of other European countries safe traffic education programs that are being implemented in development practice are characterized by low efficiency when the change of the pupils’ behaviour in a real street is thought as the effectiveness of the education. The subject of the present dissertation is the development of child pedestrian road safety competence in the primary school. The goal of the dissertation is to reveal the situation of development of child road safety competence, to disclose the assumptions for road safety education in the primary school and their improvement, to interpret these assumptions theoretically... [to full text]