The Challenges of Developing a Homeland Security Discipline to Meet Future Threats to the Homeland
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Linda Kiltz
This paper argues that homeland security education must continually adapt to future risks, threats and vulnerabilities. To do this, it will be necessary to look at the many ways of looking at homeland security thinking and practice from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Looking at the homeland security enterprise through a variety of perspectives, taken together and synthesized, can deepen understanding and shed additional light on the scope of the field or discipline. Next, this paper discusses the need for existing and future educational programs in homeland security that are inclusive of the theories, practices and research methods of emergency management, despite the current cultural differences between these fields. Finally, this paper highlights three challenges in the development of homeland security education programs: (1) the development and implementation of a standardized curriculum with core functions and competencies that are inclusive of emergency management, (2) the evolution into a new academic discipline; (3) and the adoption of multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Research Article
- The Challenges of Developing a Homeland Security Discipline to Meet Future Threats to the Homeland
- Higher Education of Emergency Management in China
- A Table-Top Game to Teach Technological and Tactical Planning in a Graduate Terrorism and Counterterrorism Course
- An Exploratory Research Design Further Demonstrating the Need for the Integration of Critical Thinking Skill Curricula in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Higher Education Academic Programs
- Use of a Stakeholder-Driven DACUM Process to Define Knowledge Areas for Food Protection and Defense
- Reflections on the Development of an Undergraduate Emergency Management Program: The Experiences of Western Illinois University
- A Matrix Approach to Homeland Security Professional Education
- Security Education during the Process of Democratization and Internationalization: The Czech Lessons
- Emergency and Civil Protection: Curriculum Design for 30 Hours of Instructional Time
- Transnational & Comparative Curricular Offerings in U.S. Post-Baccalaureate Programs: Benchmarking a Link from the U.S. to the EU in Homeland Security Education
- Framing the Future: What Should Emergency Management Graduates Know?
- Sociology and the National Incident Management System (NIMS): Oil and Water?
- An Assessment of the Benefits of Online Scenario Simulation Tools in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Education
- Editor's Note
- Introduction to Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Special Issue
- Opinion
- Professional Education for Emergency Managers
- The Essentials of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Graduate Education Programs: Design, Development, and Future
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Research Article
- The Challenges of Developing a Homeland Security Discipline to Meet Future Threats to the Homeland
- Higher Education of Emergency Management in China
- A Table-Top Game to Teach Technological and Tactical Planning in a Graduate Terrorism and Counterterrorism Course
- An Exploratory Research Design Further Demonstrating the Need for the Integration of Critical Thinking Skill Curricula in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Higher Education Academic Programs
- Use of a Stakeholder-Driven DACUM Process to Define Knowledge Areas for Food Protection and Defense
- Reflections on the Development of an Undergraduate Emergency Management Program: The Experiences of Western Illinois University
- A Matrix Approach to Homeland Security Professional Education
- Security Education during the Process of Democratization and Internationalization: The Czech Lessons
- Emergency and Civil Protection: Curriculum Design for 30 Hours of Instructional Time
- Transnational & Comparative Curricular Offerings in U.S. Post-Baccalaureate Programs: Benchmarking a Link from the U.S. to the EU in Homeland Security Education
- Framing the Future: What Should Emergency Management Graduates Know?
- Sociology and the National Incident Management System (NIMS): Oil and Water?
- An Assessment of the Benefits of Online Scenario Simulation Tools in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Education
- Editor's Note
- Introduction to Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Special Issue
- Opinion
- Professional Education for Emergency Managers
- The Essentials of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Graduate Education Programs: Design, Development, and Future
