PEDAGOGICAL FUNCTIONS AND BOUNDARIES OF POLICE PARTICIPATION IN BUILDING STUDENTS’ IMMUNITY TO EXTREMIST IDEAS
Keywords:
prevention inspector, prevention of extremism, legal education, school–police cooperation, psychological inoculation, non-stigmatisation.Abstract
The thesis examines the role of the police prevention inspector in school-based prevention of extremism from a pedagogical perspective. It argues that the inspector’s participation should shift from one-off warnings about legal responsibility towards a set of clearly defined educational functions performed in cooperation with the school and the family. Five pedagogical functions of the inspector are identified and distributed across the universal, selective and indicated levels of prevention, and pedagogical requirements and safeguards are proposed to prevent the securitisation of the school environment and the stigmatisation of students.
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