Abstract
The study aimed to exploring the level of tolerance of students towards certain social and religious factors such as gender, ethnicity, caste, religion and religious sects, Also this study focused on how the Tolerance statue can be reformed from being just a value to be a way of life or a way of thinking which transfer it from being emotions manner to be intellectual and rational manner. Due to this assumption, this study supposes that one of the most direct ways to improve such tolerance and co-existence is through education for tolerance by having such knowledge (cognitive competence) that will help especially youth to develop the conscious mind, be more tolerant and avoid prejudices and stereotypes. This paper identifies two keys educational challenges to learn and teach tolerance: (1) discuss the social and cultural determination of tolerance (socio-culture environment and background) (2) identifies the reason of tolerance change recently at the Egyptian society. For achieving that, this study will depend on focus group and Scale as analysis tools for discussion both determinations and obstacles of socio-culture tolerance. Also, it is important to reveal students’ perception about tolerance after participated in some academic program at the university. Also this study will depend on content analysis to university curricula and activities. It is concluded that there are still a gab inside higher education towards the relationship between youth cognitive competence and inter-ethnic tolerance.
Highlights
Egypt is a country that has special identity and has Middle Eastern customs
It is noticeable by the tolerance and co-existence values at all history, but this value may appear and increase in some periods and disappear in the other according to social and cultural determinations and factors
Many political events has happened after the Egyptian revolution and has some impacts on the tolerance value at Egypt society
Summary
Egypt is a country that has special identity and has Middle Eastern customs. It is noticeable by the tolerance and co-existence values at all history, but this value may appear and increase in some periods and disappear in the other according to social and cultural determinations and factors. Many political events has happened after the Egyptian revolution and has some impacts on the tolerance value at Egypt society. This study supposes that there is still a gap inside the educational system towards the relationship between youth cognitive competence and inter-ethnic tolerance. This study aims to address this gap among the university's students and trying to put empirical solution to reduce this gap and transmit the concept of socio-cultural tolerance to the real Egyptian educational curricula. This research asserts of the importance of faculty of Education educational curricula in providing correct information and knowledge to deal with and eliminate students’ misconceptions about the ‘other’ in order to achieve better inter-ethnic and social tolerance relationship
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