Ongoing evaluation of emergency vehicle driving skills development through simulation training in a virtual environment

As an autonomous constituent of culture explaining the functioning of the world in which all humans live, science has a long-standing history, and has developed solely with the so-called scientific method (or methods), also referred to as paradigms of science, through research activities leading to the publishing of the outcomes of scientific exploration. The development of science, as pursued through the expansion of its subject matter, and through modifying and revising its modes of learning, generated such an expansion in knowledge that it became necessary to divide it into specific areas, fields, and disciplines. By making a general reference to the history of science, including its division as proposed by A. Comte, this article will analyse the modern developments in this sphere, as introduced both by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In the context of the existing division of science into fields and disciplines, and in view of the place of security sciences within the field of social sciences, the theoretical (ontological and epistemological) methodological assumptions of this science will be analysed, which will form the basis for shaping its identity, and determining its place within the existing system of sciences. Basic indications will also be presented regarding the subject matter of research, and its transdisciplinary conditions, methods, techniques, and research tools, positioned within transmethodology.