Course Title

471564

Course Number

Education and Development

Instructor Name

Ahmed Raba'

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

First Semester 1
First Semester 1
First Semester 1

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

This course aims to provide the student with the definitions of education and its relationship to development and the essence of development, its theories and characteristics, and its problems in the Arab world, in addition to the impact of education on development and the importance of the human element in it, as well as reviewing the obstacles to development and the challenges it faces, in addition to the impact of backwardness, politics, economics, absence of the issue and slackness Administrative corruption, fragmentation, ignorance, backwardness, and poverty in development. The course focuses on the role of knowledge and self-learning in development in addition to the obstacles facing education and development in Palestine and the Arab world in light of globalization.

 Objectives of the course

Familiarizing students with

1- Education, its necessity, importance, methods and means in bringing about development in its various dimensions.

 2-The meaning of development, its divisions, its components and its link to education.

3-The concept of economic, social, political and cultural growth and the theories explaining it and its relevance to educational science

4-The meaning of community backwardness and its effects, and the role of the educational process in treating it.

5-The essence of human resources, methods of development, labor market and income.

6-The challenges of change in societies and educational methods to address them

Intending Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will have been expected to

Analyze the modern ancient educational philosophies and writings of philosophers to arrive at their educational principles

Analyze the relationship between education and development

Recognize the role of different educational and social institutions

 Classify the development patterns in terms of similarities and differences between them

 Criticize the aspects of Arab development plans

Discuss the contribution of the role of education to development

References

Abd Allah Rsheidan, (2005). Education and development. Dar Al-Basheer for publication. Amman Jordan

Al-Hindawi, Hassan (2014). Education and the problem of development, The Ummah Book, Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Qatar .

European Commission (2015), www.ec.europa.eu,  - Official Journal of the European Union (2015), www.eur-lex.europa.eu

The United Nations Development Programme (2015), www.undp.org,

The World Bank Group (2015), www.worldbank.org