Selected aspects of formal and non-formal education in shaping society’s awareness of security

Based on theoretical considerations and analyzing practical activities implemented in the area of shaping public awareness of security, the article attempts to characterize educational entities, non-governmental organizations and uniformed services that have the most significant impact on the issues discussed. The aim of the article is to present the process of transferring knowledge, shaping skills and competences in the area of security through institutional education and the activity of all entities operating in the process of shaping human security. The article presents a modern and comprehensive approach to the implementation of tasks in the field of education for security, the essence of cooperation between formal and non-formal education and its role in shaping the public awareness of security, taking into account its interdisciplinarity. It was pointed out that the condition for building a strong state security system is the education of an aware society, prepared to react to events with the features of a crisis.

The paper’s proposed area of analysis surrounds Christian education in the direct sense related to the implementation of specific goals of Christian education, and indirectly, including aspects involving the psychologist and educator taking educational actions while consciously adopting a personality attitude. The article is a scientific study on the historical development of Christian principles of education, especially in their psychological and pedagogical dimension. It shows the evolution of these educational principles and, most importantly from the research perspective, the various conditions of gradual but clear changes in this area over the centuries in the teaching and practice of church centres.