Abstract:
The study aimed to identify the role of universities in promoting a culture of tolerance among the student councils in Gaza Strip. In the branches of Al-Quds Open University in Gaza Strip, the number reached fifty. The study concluded a set of results. the most important was : The factors leading to violence and quarrels among students were high. As the total score was for axis 74.2 % and the highest paragraph on the axis. Which represented 80%, was when trying to achieve demands using violence, and this also represented, in the students closing the university gate and preventing students from entering it and sometimes preventing faculty members. 56.4 % "Sometimes we create problems to achieve our demands." As for the second axis, which is related to programs and activities that promote the concept of tolerance, the total score for the axis was 75.04 % On the axis was the ratio 70 .8 %, as the university constantly holds workshops and seminars on love and altruism. As for the third axis, the total score was the highest score for the axis related to the university's philosophy helps to accept others. whatever their ideas, with a percentage of 82% (76.12%).The lowest score on the third axis was 70.8 % , as the university provides opportunities for discussion and dialogue to accept the other, by holding meetings with student frameworks. As for the fourth axis, which related to the role of the university in transforming negative interaction into positive, it was 71.32 %, as it represented the highest paragraph on this. The axis has a percentage of 84%, as the university offers reasonable flexibility in order to achieve the higher interest of students and the lowest degree. The culture of tolerance, so the total score for the axis was 73.44 % and, the highest item on this axis was that faculty members enhance self-confidence between students and encouraging them with incentives to do good. With a percentage of 78%, as well as the lowest score, which represented 70%, as they notified students of the standards of good behavior to support and enhance it. As for the rest of the axes in the table, the sixth axis related to the role of universities with civil society institutions, which represented a percentage of 76.68 % and a percentage of 86%. For the highest paragraph related to the university's encouragement of service institutions by allowing them to hold open days for students, and the lowest paragraph of 70.8 %, where the university directs students to benefit from the services of institutions supporting students inside and outside the country. Students, its total score was 75.04 %, and the highest paragraph represented 86%, which relates to a series of mutual visits by students to university branches all over the country, and the lowest score on the axis, which represented 70.8 %, which relates to the participation of professors in periodic sessions with students to enhance familiarity and exchange opinion between them.
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