معتقدات معلمي الدراسات الاجتماعية حول التربية المواطنيّة في مدارس التعليم الأساسي بسلطنة عمان

Humaid Muslem  Alsaidi

doi:10.35516/edu.v50i4.2480

Authors

Humaid Muslem Alsaidi Department of Technical Supervision, Ministry of Education, Sultanate of Oman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-3571

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/edu.v50i4.2480

Keywords:

Beliefs, citizenship education, social studies teachers

Abstract

Objectives: The study aimed to identify the beliefs of social studies’ teachers about citizenship education in basic education schools in the Sultanate of Oman and its relationship to some variables.

Methods: The descriptive approach was used, and the tool of the study is beliefs scale, which consists of five dimensions (citizenship education, rights and duties, national identity, community partnership, global and digital citizenship), After verifying the validity and reliability of this scale, it was applied to a random sample of (250) teachers (male and female) from basic education schools in the Sultanate of Oman.

Results: The study achieved a set of results, the most important are: the social studies teachers have positive attitudes towards citizenship education which is represented by strongly agree level with general arithmetic mean of (4.25).The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (a = 0.05) in social studies teachers' beliefs about citizenship due to the gender variable. While there were statistically significant differences at the variable of educational qualification in favor of post graduate studies’.

Conclusion: The study recommends directing teachers of social studies to employ citizenship education in teaching practices and pay attention to training teachers on citizenship education.

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