Peace Concepts in Civic Education Curriculum: A Jordanian University Sample

Abstract

This research addresses the problems of peace education after the emergence of contemporary educational dilemmas facing our societies in an era we seek to realize peace. The research addresses a number of concepts in ideology and education facing the challenges for a culture of peace education in our teachings. The study shows the role of education and politics as needed together in collaboration to make further efforts to bring the concepts of peace into practice, through the promotion of dialogue in the framework of an integrated education for the political security and positive change that is needed to save humanity, especially in our Arab Jordanian culture. The study tries to address the problems of peace education with the significant impact on the social, moral and political levels .It focuses on highlighting the positive function of education to address the questions raised in the educational thought and political education by reviewing the curriculum and courses -related, and in particular the structure of Civic Education in Jordanian Universities. The study concluded that the average degree of covering peace concepts in Civic Education at Jordanian Universities was high, and that is including both the total scale and  sub-total score of the scale, with a difference recognized in the (method of teaching the course, impact of the course on students, and the total score) according to gender, so that the averages of males were higher than those of females, while in terms of the course content of civic education  there were no differences according to gender, but there appeared a difference in the field of (Method of teaching the course), as the averages of scientific stream students were higher compared to the humanitarian stream students. While when considering the field of  content of the course of civic education, and the field of the impact of the course on students, no significant differences appeared depending on the specialty, also no   significant differences appeared  in the dimensions of (the method of  teaching the course, the content of course of civic education, and the impact of course on the students), nor in the total degree depending on the variable of thought  belonging .Perhaps the most recommended results are  the need to review strategies for future development of peace  education in Jordan in order to create a Jordanian citizen who aspires peace education on the  human level.

Keywords: Civic Education, Jordanian universities, peace curriculum