Education and its relationship with some demographic variables as detected with a sample of Jordanian university students

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Al balqa Applied University, Jordon.

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This study aims to know the obstacles of the democratic, political, social, economic, educational, and cultural education from the university of Jordan students' point of view and to know the effect of study variances such as gender, the academic level, place of living and the student's membership in students' clubs. The researchers developed the study instrument this study aims to answer the following questions:
1- What are the democratic, political, social, economic, educational, cultural obstacles from the university of Jordan students' view?
2- Are there any statistically significant differences at level 0.05=a in the democratic education obstacles due to sex, academic level, place of living, and students' membership.
The study sample consists of 640 students who study in public universities 344 male student and 296 female students. This study shows that there are obstacles in all fields of study and mostly in cultural obstacles. Also, it shows that there were no statistical differences at level 0.05=a in sex variance for males and females, but there were statistical differences at level 0.05=a in the democratic political, social education, obstacles and for students' membership. Also , there were no statistical differences at level .05 due to place of living in all economic , social and educational obstacles, where as it was statistical at level .05 democratic, political and cultural education lastly. This study shows that there are statistical sign cant differences level .05 in the democratic educational due to student's member ship for students who attend students committees.

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