Abstract
This study aims at recognizing the role of the teachers of the secondary stage of education in the schools’ of the West Bank in raising the awareness of students about the phenomenon of intellectual extremism from the point of view of students. The study population comprises the students of the governmental schools in the Northern region of the West Bank in the academic year (2019-2020). The representative sample of the study consists of (382) female and male students from the governmental schools in the West Bank (the northern region of the West Bank). The researchers used the questionnaires as the study tool by adopting the descriptive analytical methodology. The results of the shows that the degree of the role of the secondary schools’ teachers in the West Bank in raising the awareness of students about intellectual extremism from the point of view of students is “medium”. In addition, it is clear that there are statistical differences in the role of the secondary school’s teachers in the West Bank in raising the awareness of students about intellectual extremism according to the variable of gender that it came in favor of males. In addition, there are not statistical differences according to the variable of major and qualifications. In light the previously mentioned results, the researcher recommends to put a strategy adopted by the Ministry of Education in order to raise the awareness about intellectual extremism in students by developing their sense of responsibility towards their society. In addition, it is recommended that it is imperative to develop the curriculum and teaching methods by focusing on the religious aspect of the society. Keywords : Intellectual Extremism, West Bank, Student Awareness. DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-36-03 Publication date : December 31st 2019
Highlights
The age that accompanies our lives today is witnessing rapid change and amazing progress in various fields of education, social, political, economic and cultural
With the penetration of many ideologies on these channels, it became easy to reshape the human mind with behavioral ideas and patterns that deviate from the beliefs of peoples and their value, intellectual and religious premises, and turn their ideas and behavior towards extremism and exaggeration, and compel them to embrace trends, tendencies and beliefs that do not conform to the intellectual system of society
Intellectual extremism is defined as the exaggeration of intellectual or behavioral militancy through a set of religious, ideological, political or economic ideas, as the individual reaches the belief that he possesses the whole truth, and these ideas are due to the increasing gap between the individual and the social fabric to which he belongs or is present, Which leads him to feel alienated from himself and from the community around him (ElBorai, 2002)
Summary
1.8.2 The study tool The researchers prepared the study tool (the questionnaire) after reviewing the study literature and previous studies related to the subject. The validity of the tool was verified by presenting it to a group of arbitrators with expertise and experience in the field of educational sciences in the Palestinian universities and asked them to express an opinion on the questionnaire paragraphs by deleting and amending and proposing new paragraphs, and if the tool is suitable for the subject of the study, and based on the arbitrators' notes the study tool was modified with its final form, it consists of (36) paragraphs. The reliability coefficient was extracted using the Alpha Cronbach equation, where the coefficient of reliability was (0.92). These values for the reliability coefficients were appropriate and fulfilled for the purpose of the study
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