The paper is an analytical study which involves the following issues: terrorist threats as a challenge, terrorist threats in Europe and Poland, and terrorism prevention in secondary schools. After relevant argumentation of the policymakers’ needs concerning terrorist threats, the author discusses different ways of how to counteract these threats in secondary schools. The analysis is based on extensive source literature, with characteristics of terrorist threats being presented by listing features and attributes which uniquely indicate them. The author’s major contribution was conducting empirical research on a reliable research sample. It is worth observing that the author attempted to offer her own ideas of how to behave and what moves can be made by head teachers and teaching staff during hypothetical acts of terrorism. The author's considerations are the reflection of current knowledge about terrorism in the area of scientific exploration related to preparing children and young people for this type of emergency.Taking account of the presented issues, the paper is bound to be interesting for people who deal with terrorism as a current challenge.
Shaping right patriotic attitudes in Poland requires from the state introducing patriotic and military education incorporated in the learning curricula. Defence education is a system of activity of schools, nonmilitary institutions and learners themselves, aiming at preparing the school youth to defend their own country and ensuring them proper physical and moral development. The aim of the article is to present defence education theory, its genesis in Poland and establishing the status quo of defence education in the area of youth’s preparation to defend the country.
With the development of civilization, the striving to ensure the safety of children and youth is becoming the main task of school education. There is often the idea that preparing the state to defend the inviolability of borders, sovereignty and independence, and to provide people with personal security is a specific sum of defensive consciousness as well as the knowledge and skills of each human individual. The general education of society will determine the future of the nation and its power. Although education needs stability, it is harder and harder to achieve it in common environment. Industrialization, the implementation of the Internet of Things as well as the degradation of natural environment are sources of instability and a permanent growth of factors which have impact on human health and the Earth itself. As a result, children and youth are lost in today's world, saturated with technology and information, from which it is difficult to clearly distinguish good from evil or truth from falsehood. Threats cannot be eliminated, but we can and must reduce them. Therefore, what is needed right now is education for security. A discussion about the teaching curriculum basis (core curriculum) is popular in our country. External events (macro-perception) cause the activities in the sphere of the education system to cease to be effective, despite the great effort made by teachers and students. This paper presents the results of the author's research and experience in this subject, also discussing some limitations that result in an insufficient rate of change in security education.
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