Security illiteracy
Security illiteracy

The security culture problematique reflected in the Romanian educational system

Summary/Abstract: This article sets to offer a comprehensive perspective on the continuous and flexible adapting of security and intelligence studies in Romania where, through notable efforts, there is an ongoing progress to integrate national practices into the Euro-Atlantic landscape. Even if we are not speaking of an innovative topic-as throughout time the efforts of theorists and practitioners focused on diverse theories and taxonomies related to security and intelligence studies- it has to be noted that our efforts have the purpose of rather consolidating and developing the subfields of education and security culture. From this perspective, we are perfectly aware that the process of identification, shaping, developing, and implementing of a security education and culture is undoubtedly laborious. For reasons concerned more or less with patriotism, education (in general), critical thinking, various interests, each of us has a security education, but the basis is only empirical. Starting from this reality, the objective of this article is to build a scientifically-based instrument that would export security education and culture to a scientifical level. This article is based on pragmatic research methods, thus being more solution-oriented towards a sociological issue, namely the implementation of security education and culture at the societal level. More so, the analysis conducted is both descriptive- the establishment of the societal status-quo, and exploratory- constructing an argument for the application of security education and culture through various programs. The topic could be reviewed from the pragmatism paradigm point of view, more specifically through a deep analysis of cause-effect relations, as means for grasping the present-day context properly. This is the rationale supporting the aim of finding a valid solution to a pressing problem: the absence of a security education and culture at national level.

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