TITLE:
Analysis of Safety Education Contents and Teaching Recommendations in Middle-Grade Life Adaptation Textbooks
AUTHORS:
Yufeng Li, Juan Peng
KEYWORDS:
Life Adaptation, Safety Education, Textbook Analysis, Teaching Recommendations
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.14 No.8,
August
18,
2026
ABSTRACT: Students with intellectual disabilities have limited cognitive abilities, and safety incidents occur from time to time; therefore, safety education is of utmost importance. Currently, there is little analysis of safety education materials for special education schools, and even less analysis for middle-grade levels. This paper analyzes the safety education content in middle-grade Life Adaptation textbooks and concludes that the safety education content for middle grades in this set of textbooks centers on social safety, public health and accidental injury prevention, with intensive arrangements of relevant learning materials in Grade 5. In contrast, the coverage of natural disaster safety, internet and information safety, and other incident safety is insufficient and scattered. The safety education system has structural imbalance and knowledge gaps in certain grade levels. In addition, the textbooks feature practical and real-life content, hands-on activity design, text-illustration layout, and simple language. In teaching, educators should follow the principle of spiral progression, adhere to individualized instruction, ground lessons in students’ daily needs, employ diverse teaching methods, emphasize hands-on practice, flexibly organize comprehensive activities, prioritize collaboration among home, school, and community, and integrate safety education with other academic subjects.