The role of Saudi universities in facing contemporary crises: COVID-19 as a model

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Education and Psychology, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Tabuk, K.S.A

2 Department of Education Foundations, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University, A.R.E

3 Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University, A.R.E

Abstract

Universities have a major role in managing and confronting crises, and in light of the outbreak of the new Corona virus, their responsibility increases in developing students’ awareness of how to successfully deal with the effects of that virus spread. Hence, this descriptive study aimed to survey the academic experts' perspectives about the most important Saudi universities roles to deal with the emerging Corona 38 roles were listed under three sub-dimensions in a questionnaire in order to reveal the students’ perspectives about the degree to which universities do their roles during the Corona epidemic according to the variables of gender, educational level, and specialization. Overall perspectives of students indicated that Saudi universities achieve their roles related to "the process of teaching" to a large extent, and the roles related to both "training and community service" and "students' activities" to a neutral extent. The results also showed that there were not statistically significant differences about Saudi universities roles during the Corona epidemic according to the variable of specialization, but there were differences about Saudi universities roles related to "the process of teaching" according to the variable of gender in the direction of female students, and their roles related to "training and community service" and "students' activities" according to the variable of educational level in the direction of postgraduate students. The study proposed future procedures to enhance the role of Saudi universities in dealing with the continuous Corona epidemic.

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المجلة التربوية لکلية التربية بسوهاج
Volume 106, Issue 106 - Serial Number 106
مناهج وطرق التدریس ( اللغة العربیة- الإنجلیزیة – الفرنسیة – الریاضیات – العلوم- الفنون- الاقتصاد المنزلی- التجاری ... )
February 2023
Pages 1403-1426

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History

  • Receive Date: 20 November 2022
  • Revise Date: 01 December 2022
  • Accept Date: 03 December 2022

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