Measuring College Students’ Perceptions to Tolerance Dimensions: Socio-Anthropological Study at Cairo
khalil, samah;
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.
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Title | Measuring College Students’ Perceptions to Tolerance Dimensions: Socio-Anthropological Study at Cairo | Authors | khalil, samah | Keywords | SOCIAL TOLERANCE - CULTURAL TOLERANCE | Issue Date | Jun-2018 | Publisher | CANADIAN CENTER OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION | Source | http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/75178 | Journal | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES | Series/Report no. | VOL 10-NO 2 JUNE 2018; | ISSN | 1918-7211 |
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