Citation : Mufdi, Mallaouh
(2014): “The University’s Role in Promoting its Students’ Social
Awareness from the Students’ Perspective at Balqa Applied University”, International Journal of Education,p.71-92
Awareness from the Students’ Perspective at Balqa Applied University”, International Journal of Education,p.71-92
In this article, the researcher
purposed to investigate the University’s role in promoting social awareness
from students’ point of views. Furthermore this study is aimed to identify the
impact of some demographic variables as gender, type of college, and the
academic year on this role. In holding this research, the researcher presented
a conceptual frame about the students social awareness and the university’s
role in this awareness, and applied a field study on Al-Balqa Applied
University’s students in three colleges that represented Jordan’s three
provinces. The questionnaire consisted of 37 items was distributed into three
fields, and applied after checking its acceptable degree of reliability and
validity. The questionnaire consisted of two parts, the first one includes the tool, its goal, and information about
the respondents. By using the appropriate statistical test, the data was
analyzed.
Based on the result, it revealed that
the university’s role in promoting the students’ social awareness was high in
the field of the academic staff’s role, while it was moderate in the fields of the
university and curriculum, and methods of teaching plus evaluation’s roles, and
in the total degree of the instrument as well. There were also no statistically
significant differences attributed to the gender and faculty’s variables, whereas the academic
year variable was statistically significant, and the differences were in favor of the freshmen
students in the field of university administration, and the fourth year students in the field of
academic staff’s role. Based on this result, it is needed to reconsider the roles of university, curriculum, and methods of teaching and evaluation in promoting the social awareness by preparing programs which promote the social awareness, and to design university courses that enrich the students; humanistic knowledge in different fields that suits their social status. It is also needed to conduct further studies that addressed social awareness of other categories in the Jordanian society with other variables.
significant differences attributed to the gender and faculty’s variables, whereas the academic
year variable was statistically significant, and the differences were in favor of the freshmen
students in the field of university administration, and the fourth year students in the field of
academic staff’s role. Based on this result, it is needed to reconsider the roles of university, curriculum, and methods of teaching and evaluation in promoting the social awareness by preparing programs which promote the social awareness, and to design university courses that enrich the students; humanistic knowledge in different fields that suits their social status. It is also needed to conduct further studies that addressed social awareness of other categories in the Jordanian society with other variables.
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