Diagnosis of educational needs in the field of personal safety in the perception of primary school students on the example of a district town

Abstract

This paper presents the results of surveys aimed at identifying the needs and expectations of pri-mary and junior high school students in relation to education for safety. When starting the research, the starting point was the statement that in order to effectively influence the behavior of young people in the field of safe behaviors, analyzes of threats characteristic for the region should be made, as well as diagnose the needs of the recipients themselves. The research covered a group of students from three schools located in Garwolin — one of the poviat cities in the Mazowieckie voivodship. Their goal was to define the educational expectations of young people in terms of personal security, limited to threats related to crime and social pathologies, which can be the basis for implementation of issues indicated by respondents in the activities of schools and institutions implementing security tasks in the region.