Perception of economic reality - a national security requirement for education in the information age

• Authors: Dragan Ž. Đurđević , Miroslav D. Stevanović

Title variants

PL

Postrzeganie rzeczywistości ekonomicznej - krajowe wymogi bezpieczeństwa edukacji w społeczeństwie informacyjnym

Abstracts

PL

W artykule dokonano obserwacji zdolności państwa do ochrony wartości życiowych, zdolności intelektualnej elity do obiektywnego postrzegania aktualnych realiów ekonomicznych i ich potencjalnych konsekwencji. Problem ten jest postrzegany fenomenologicznie z uwagi na wybrane sytuacje charakteryzujące się brakiem podstaw teoretycznych kapitału ludzkiego. Wyniki wskazują na oportunizm wysoko wykształconych specjalistów w zakresie wiedzy teoretycznej, a co za tym idzie, niedoskonałości w obliczu złożonych zmiennych, które stanowią wyzwania dla bezpieczeństwa narodowego. Wnioskujemy, że w erze informacji, która charakteryzuje się złożonością, szybkością i dużą ilością dostępnych informacji, podejmowanie decyzji związanych z bezpieczeństwem narodowym wymaga bardziej kreatywnego myślenia, co nakłada na szkolnictwo wyższe potrzebę skoncentrowania się, oprócz rozwiązywania problemów, na rozwijaniu zdolności poznawczych i roztropności.

EN

In this article, we consider a specific of the ability of a state to protect its essential values: the capacity of its intellectual elite to objectively perceive current economic realities and their potential consequences. We approach this problem phenomenologically, referring to situations characterised by the lack of a theoretical basis, in whicz highly qualified individuals participated without awareness of their consequences for the stability and essential values of the state. We view these situations from the standpoint of the prevailing educational system whicz produced the personel involved in such operations, and within the context of the need of a political community to maintain the capacity to perceive challenges to its essential values. The results indicate the opportunism of highly educated professionals with respect to theoretical knowledge and the consequent inadequacies in dealing with complex variables whicz generate challenges for national security. We conclude that in the information age, whicz is characterised by complexity, speed and large quantities of available information, decision-making related to national security requires more creative thinking, and this entails a need for higher education to focus not merely on problem-solving, but also on the development of cognitive capacity and prudence.

Keywords

EN

High-frequency trading; Financialisation; Cognitive capacity; Creative thinking; Judgement

PL

Handel wysokiej częstotliwości; System finansowy; Potencjał poznawczy; Twórcze myślenie; Ocean

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej im. Stanisława Staszica w Pile
• Journal: Progress in Economic Sciences
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 7-18

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Dragan Ž. Đurđević

author

Miroslav D. Stevanović

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14595/PES/05/001

Biblioteka Nauki

1788545