Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the university’s role in promoting social awareness of Balqa Applied University’s students from the perspective of the students themselves, and to identify the impact of some demographic variables as gender, type of college and the academic year on this role. To achieve the study’s objectives, 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 which consisted of 37 items was distributed into three fields, and applied after checking its acceptable degree of reliability and validity. Data were analyzed using the appropriate statistical tests. The results 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’ roles, and in the total degree of the instrument as well. The results also revealed that there were 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 favour 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 these results, the study recommended the necessity 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.
Highlights
Preparing and rehabilitating the human resources is considered one of the universities’ major goals, and the universities seek to achieve the ideal preparation of human resources, so as to enable them work in all the fields which the society need
It should be stated that if fake awareness addressed consenting in a social environment through an authority, it would be required the same degree of real awareness, even the mutual consenting gives legitimacy that exceeds real awareness, which did not achieve the condition of satisfaction satisfaction could be a result of promotion or ignorance of hidden obligation. (Makroom, 2009)
While this study differs from the previous studies in choosing the sample which was students of Balqa Applied University, and in revealing the impact of gender, college and academic year variables on this awareness, this study is considered the first one that discusses the social awareness content of the universities Jordanian students represented by the students of Balqa Applied University
Summary
Preparing and rehabilitating the human resources is considered one of the universities’ major goals, and the universities seek to achieve the ideal preparation of human resources, so as to enable them work in all the fields which the society need. To achieve this goal, the universities coordinate with the society’s different institutions to provide the components of youth care with all of its mental, psychological, social and psychical aspects, and anything that can help in launching the youth’s capabilities in different fields at the same time. It should be stated that if fake awareness addressed consenting in a social environment through an authority, it would be required the same degree of real awareness, even the mutual consenting gives legitimacy that exceeds real awareness, which did not achieve the condition of satisfaction satisfaction could be a result of promotion or ignorance of hidden obligation. (Makroom, 2009)
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