The Impact of Strategic Planning in Improving the Competitive Advantage of Emerging Saudi Universities
- Dr. Khadija Maqbool Al-Zahrani
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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This study aims mainly to reveal the impact of strategic planning in supporting the competitive advantage in emerging Saudi universities and the ability of those universities to compete locally and globally, and that is through investigating the opinions of faculty members about the reality of strategic planning and the level of competitive advantage in their universities, and identifying the most important obstacles that weaken the university’s ability to adhere to the strategic planning approach, and revealing the differences in the opinions of faculty members according to the following variables: (gender, leadership position, academic rank, years of experience). In order to know the impact of strategic planning in supporting the competitive advantage in emerging Saudi universities, the descriptive correlative approach was used, The researcher also built a questionnaire consisting of 54 items; For the purpose of collecting information from the sample members and answering questions, And the study reached a number of results, the most prominent of which were: that emerging Saudi universities practice strategic planning to a large extent, and also the level of competitive advantage in emerging Saudi universities was very high, And that one of the most prominent obstacles to the strategic planning process in emerging Saudi universities from the point of view of the faculty members is the strict centralization of the decision-making process, The results also revealed an impact of effective strategic planning in supporting the competitive advantage in emerging Saudi universities. Therefore, the study recommended the emerging universities to adopt the strategic planning approach and give it sufficient attention and provide the necessary requirements for its success and taking more measures for emerging universities to discover their physical and human capabilities, develop their competitive advantages, and measure them on an ongoing basis. Keywords: Strategic Planning, Competitive Advantage, Emerging Universities.
Magical Realism in Ben Okri’s Novel The Famished Road
- Dr. John Kuriakose
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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Notwithstanding that Ben Okri does not attach himself to magical realism, his magnum opus The Famished Road (1991) displays all the fundamental attributes of the genre. Magical realist features are obvious in the way the principal character Azaro perceives events and things, the cultural and religious traditions of the society the book portrays and the fictional strategies of the writer. The book is a product of the African conception of the world as a realm in which the living get intermingled with the spirits, and the poverty, squalor, exploitation and corruption that existed in the postcolonial Nigerian society it portrays. The fictional world of The Famished Road is a phenomenal world, which is unveiled through the dreams and hallucinations of Azaro and populated by spirits. It is also a mythical world inhabited by abikus, spirits, fauns, fairies, gentle and kind spirits, ancestral spirits which are the essential ingredients of the African cultural tradition and a world that disturbs the conventional ideas about time, place and identity. Strewn within the magical narrative passages of The Famished Road there are also realistic passages, which express the trauma of the colonialist and capitalist exploitation and destruction of nature. As in the case of other magical realists in general, Okri use techniques such as focalization, stories within stories, absence of a definite beginning and ending and mongrelism. Postmodernist features are visible both in the form and the content of the novel: it does not follow the established conventions of storytelling, it invites the attention of the reader to its structure that is organized in terms of frames, and like postmodernist texts in general, it does not have a formal beginning and ending, and indicates a temporal process that is unending. Keywords: Magical Realism, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, Symbolism, Mongrelism.
The Degree of Practicing Primary Schools' Leaders in the Urban Asir Region to Dimensions of Social Intelligence and its Relationship with the Participation of Teachers in School Decisions Making
- Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Muslat Dr. Sultan Saeed Abdo Al-Mekhlafi
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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The research aims to identify the degree of practicing primary schools' leaders in the urban Asir region to dimensions of social intelligence and its relationship with the participation of teachers in school decisions making, and whether there are differences according to the variables: qualification, governorate, number of service years. The descriptive method was used in its correlational approach to suit the nature of the research. The research sample consisted of (354) teachers in the second semester of the academic year 40/1441AH, they were chosen randomly, at a rate of (9%) from the research population which was (3939) teachers. The results showed that the degree of practicing dimensions of social intelligence was achieved with a high degree with an average of (3.49) and at a rate of (69.76%) from the total degree of practice, and that the degree of teachers' participation in school decisions making was achieved with a high degree with an average of (3.27) and at a rate of (65.34%) from the total degree of participation, and the result showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the average degree of practicing dimensions of social intelligence and the average degree of teachers' participation in school decisions according to the variables: qualification, governorate and the number of service years, and the results showed that the correlation coefficient between the average degree of practicing primary schools' leaders for the dimensions of social intelligence and the average degree of teachers' participation in school decisions making is (0.130), and It expresses the existence of a statistically significant positive correlation, the research recommended raising the skills of schools' leaders in practicing social intelligence behaviors and creating opportunities for more teachers' participation in school decisions making, which increases the effectiveness of school work. Keywords: Dimensions of Social Intelligence, Teachers' Participation in School Decisions Making, Primary Schools' Leaders, Urban Asir Region.
Benefit Degree of Saudi Universities Members from International and Local Conferences
- Dr. Awad Hammad Al - Hweiti
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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The study aims to identify the benefit degree of Saudi Universities Members from the International and Local Conferences in the light of the variables (gender, academic rank, years of teaching experience, the kind of the conference, number of conferences). To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher has established a questionnaire to include at the end (30) items distributed on three areas: the area of academic specialization includes (10) items, learning area includes (10) items, personal area consists of (10) items, and then their validity and reliability have been verified by statistical methods and appropriate methodologies. The study sample includes (120) faculty members of the six Saudi universities: two universities in the north of the Kingdom and two universities in the center and two universities in the south. The study results showed that all areas benefit from scientific conferences ranges between high and very high, and from the order perspective, the academic major occupied the first rank, followed by the area of personal life, and then the field of learning. The results also showed that all participants benefit from scientific conferences, regardless of their gender or scientific rank, while there are statistically significant differences in the area of learning due to the number of conferences attended by faculty members who participated less than two conferences and between all high number of participations in favor of the high number participations. Keywords: Scientific conferences, Saudi universities members, benefit from the scientific conferences
The Role OF Al-Baha University in Achiving the Intellectual Security Among Students from the Point of Views of Faculty Members and Students Themselves
- Dr. Atieh Mohammad Al Badarneh
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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The present study aims at identifying the role of Al-Baha University in achieving the intellectual security of students from the point of view of faculty members and students themselves. Also, to explore if faculty members 'estimates of university achievement of students' intellectual security vary according to their gender, academic rank, practical experience, or college. As well as whether students 'estimates of the University's achievement of students' intellectual security varies according to their gender, study level, college, or academic level. The descriptive survey approach was adopted as it suits the nature of the study. The sample of the study consisted of (364) faculty members and (748) students who were selected by simple random. The researcher prepared a questionnaire to measure the estimates of the faculty members and students about the university achievement of the intellectual security of the students. The questionnaire consisted of (33) items divided into four basic dimensions (role of the faculty member, the role of the university curricula, the role of the student activities, and the role of university laws and regulations in achievement of intellectual security). The results showed that the degree of achieving intellectual security for students from the point of view of faculty members was high, while it was medium from the students' own point of view. In achieving intellectual security, the domain: the role of the faculty member ranked first, followed by the role of university curricula, then role of university laws and regulations in third place, and the fourth and final was the role of student activities in achieving intellectual security, and all their degrees were high. From students’ perspective the domain: the role of university curricula ranked first in achieving intellectual security, role of faculty member ranked second, role of university laws and regulations in third place, and the fourth and the final was the role of student activities, all their degrees were medium. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences (α≤0.05) in the estimates of the faculty members on the achievement of the university for the intellectual security among the students according to the gender variable in favor of the females, and to the type of faculty in favor of Faculties of Arts, to academic rank in favor of assistant professor rank, and to the variable of years of service favoring the years of service (5-10 years). Also there were statistically significant differences in the responses of students according to the gender variable in favor of females, according to the college variable in favor of Faculties of Arts, according to the variable of the academic level in favor of students from the academic level (fourth level and less), and for the cumulative average in favor of students of an excellent rate. In light of the results, the study recommended maintaining the roles of faculty members, student activities, university laws and regulations, and university curricula in achieving greater intellectual security among students. Keywords: Intellectual Security, Curriculum, Students’ Activities, Laws and Regulations, Faculty Members, Al-Baha University.
External Behavioural Disorders and its Relationship to crimes' Recurrence Among Juvenile Delinquents in Al-Baha Province: Clinical Psychometric Research
- Dr. Naglaa Mahmoud Mohammed Al-Habashi
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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The recent study aims to identify the prevalence rates and degree of the external behavioural disorders (Conduct disorder – attention deficit hyperactivity disorder- oppositional defiant) And the crimes frequencies and rates of juvenile delinquents, to examine the relationship between the external behavioural disorders and recurrence of crimes among juvenile delinquents. The study follows the descriptive method and applied to all juvenile delinquents in Al-Baha Juvenile Observation house. the study sample consists of (29 juveniles), in order to evaluate the external behavioural disturbances among the juveniles, there is three inventories prepared by the researcher to be used and answered by the supervisors after verifying its reliability and validity. After management of the scale statistically, the results showed that there were highly attribution rates between the three external behavioural disorders ranges of (44.82%), and there was a high degree of external behavioural disorder among juvenile delinquents in Al-Baha Juvenile Observation house. It was also found that theft crimes came first (34.28%), moral crimes (17.24%) and looting (13.79%). The results showed also there was a positive and statistically significant relationship between the behaviour disorder and crimes' recurrence. Therefore, the study recommended directing intervention programs to focus on the external behavioural disorders. Keywords: External Behavioural Disorders. Crimes 'recurrence, Juvenile Delinquents.
Analysis of the content of science unit for grade five textbook in Saudi Arabia in Light of Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran
- Dr. Amani Khalaf Alghamdi Dr. Fayad Hamed Alanazi Dr. Lamia Jadrab Aljubaili
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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The objective of the current research study is to assess the use of scientific miracles detailed in the Holy Quran in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s fifth-grade science curriculum by analyzing the content of the science course in the first and second semesters. The content-analysis methodology used in the current study was prepared by researchers. The first and second semesters of the fifth-grade science course for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia did not address the use of Quranic verses pertaining to scientific miracles in the subjects included in each unit. Instead, this course only cites verses of the Holy Quran without mentioning the employment sites of those verses related to Quranic science in scientific miracles (e.g., astronomy, meteorology, natural phenomena, life sciences, human creation, marine science), and was 5.68%, which is a very small proportion that does not match the actual number of verses containing scientific miracles in the Holy Quran. The researchers also designed a proposed unit to include the scientific miracle of the dictation, recording and preservation of the Holy Quran in the KSA’s fifth-grade science curriculum. This research study recommends the incorporation of scientific-miracle-related Quranic verses into the content of science courses in general education – in order to highlight the power and sovereignty of God Almighty, including in the creation of the universe, and thus deepen and consolidate the faith in the hearts of the students. Keywords: Science Textbooks, Scientific Miracles, Grade Five, Education in Saudi Arabia, Content Analysis.
Role of Islamic Studies Teachers in Enhancing the Health Education through Courses among Primary School Students: The Islamic Studies Teachers' Perspective at Asir Region
- Dr. Mesfer Ahmed Mesfer Alwadai
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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The current study aimed at identifying a role played by Islamic Studies teachers in enhancing health education through courses among primary school students, which is from the Islamic Studies teachers' perspective at Asir Region. In the study, the researcher used a quasi-experimental design because it is more suitable for humanities studies. Moreover, for the current study, the purposive sample consisted of (100) Islamic Studies teachers of primary schools. Fittingly, the purposive sample was a stratified random sample. Markedly, the researcher used a questionnaire for collecting the data to achieve the objectives of the study, The study revealed that: the pivotal roles played by Islamic Studies teachers in raising the level of health culture, concerning personal hygiene and first aid seem highly among the pupils. In addition, their degree of played roles regarding the healthy diet and consumer health hit an average degree, The study also showed roles played by Islamic Studies teachers concerning environmental health are weak. Also, the current study recommends the necessity of embedding Islamic Studies courses in the primary school stage with consolidated subjects for health as well as supporting it with enriching activities and illustrative instructional materials that is commensurate with physical or chronological age and the mental age of the learners. Keywords: Islamic Studies Teachers, Health Education, Primary School Level.
Analyzing the Content of Questions for the Jurisprudence Courses of the Intermediate Stage in Light of Cognitive Processes: An Evaluation Study
- Dr. Mohamed Zidan Abdullah Al Mahfouz Dr. Mohamed Awad Mohamed Al-Sahari
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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This study aims to know cognitive processes that must be met by questions of the jurisprudence curriculum in the intermediate stage, and how could the questions include cognitive processes., and the differences between jurisprudence curriculum with regard to the total iterations of cognitive processes. The two researchers used the descriptive analytical method, to analyze the questions of jurisprudence curriculum for the second semester of the intermediate stage (1441 AH). The data has been collected through an analysis card consisting of (8) axes and (29) cognitive processes. The current study showed that the highest availability of cognitive processes with questions for syntax and cognitive construction, deductive reasoning, remembering for the first and second grade, inductive reasoning, syntax and cognitive structure, representation, deductive reasoning, specifying patterns, causes, relationships for the third grades. By comparison between the curriculum of jurisprudence for the first, second and third grades with respect to the axes, the highest availability of cognitive processes occurring with the questions for the following axes: for generation, integration and organization for the first, second and third grades, and the results of the first row differ by remembering and gathering information, the second by remembering and the third by analysis. The lowest availability of cognitive processes with questions for focus and evaluation for the first, second and third grades, and the results of the first and second grades differ by analysis, and the second and third grades by collecting information, and the results of the third and second grades differ by remembering. It is clear from the results of the study to the lack of some cognitive processes in the curriculum of jurisprudence for the intermediate stage. Keywords: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum of Jurisprudence, Intermediate Stage.
Mohammed Bin Abdulsalam Al Khashani & his Scientific Efforts at Andalus
- Dr. Maha bint Mufreh bin Mani’ Al Mahmoud
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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This study aims to identify the scientific efforts of the scholar Abdulsalam Al Khashani through drawing a total image describing his attribution, birth, tradition, life and the effected factors in receiving science, also the study aims to highlight the political and social events lived by Al Khashani and he has an important role at them. Also, to highlight his scientific journeys, and the prominent scholars and Sheikhs who taught him and deprived their culture fortune which is seeking to teach and spread them at countries of Andalus. Also registration the prominent of these sciences he had written and transferred to his students in Andalus, The study is relied upon the analytical historical approach based on collection the scientific subject from its original sources and analysis them and follow up by criticism, conclusion, and auditing to access to the scientific fact, The subject of study was divided into four sections: the first section: his birth and attribution, and the second section: his science and sources 1- his family 2- natural properties 3- his environment and his society 4- his scientific journey and third section the scientific effects 1- his written authors and authors he transferred from his Sheiks, 2- his science and culture and the fourth section: the social and political effects and then the conclusion includes the important related outcome of the study. Keywords: Mohammed Bin Abdulsalam Al Khashani, Baqi Bin Mukhlid, Prince Mohammed Bin Abdullah, Andalus, Qutubah.
Sufi Arabic Poetry in Orientalist Studies Reynold Nicholson Case of Study
- Dr. Ahmed bun Saleh Ahmed Algamdi
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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This research used analytical approach, criticizing of critique to reevaluate the way that Reynold Nicholson has used to study Sufi Arabic Poetry, making it a topic of comparison, extracting ideas and issues, and giving representing examples, This analytical approach concludes that Nicholson was committed in his methodology to historical method that based on the topic, the need to understand it as evidence of fact and reality, selecting samples, by giving special consideration to the component of cultural context, and how historically developed aiming to win the sympathy feelings of European reader, Nicholson, then, concluded that the Arabic Sufi Poetry is less in expression and effectiveness in comparison with Persian’s one, because that Arab Poet consumed in lingual expressions that cause fatigue to translator, while at the same time reducing spiritual effect, The research found out that Nicholson was successful in his earlier approach to notice some critical principles of reading and interpreting some Sufi symbols, and varied his conclusions. But, on the other hand, he neglected the effect of individualism, the figurative language that affect in building of meaning, which has effect in weakening the spiritual value of Arabic Sufi Poetry, reducing its expressional function, and stabilizing the idea that oriental mentality is inaccurate and not able to link and correlate, when it is about oriental discourse. Keywords: Sufism, Sufi Arabic Literature, Reynold Nicholson, Criticizing of Critique, Orientalism.
Collecting and Studying Arabic Vernacular Vocabulary: Support and Rejection
- Dr. Mansour Saeed Ahmed Abu ras
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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This study is based on the importance of collecting and studying Arabic Vernacular Vocabulary. Although vernacular Arabic has multiple names and multiple attitudes towards it, it is almost given no research and no linguistic studies that can search for it treasures and employ them to serve Classical Arabic. This study uses the descriptive approach and the historical approach to deal with the attitudes of scholars and linguists in both the past and present. It aims at studying why scholars abandon studying Vernacular languages and collecting their vocabulary. Afterwards, it analyses the obstacles and whether these obstacles are real or unreal, accurate or inaccurate, The study reaches findings most important of which are: The different terms of the vernacular language refer to just one term, Ignoring the study of vernacular language puts the Holy Quran and religion at risk, Collecting vernacular language vocabulary benefits Linguistics, Dictionaries and Social Sciences, There is no excuse for those who support abandoning collecting vernacular language vocabulary at the present time, The efforts exerted in collecting vernacular language vocabulary in the past are not enough, The study reaches a number of recommendations most notable among them are: More research should be given to vernacular language as it represents a major level in Arabic, vernacular language is a rich source that should not be neglected because of the claim that what was collected during the Verification Era is enough, Collecting Arabic vernacular vocabulary has become a must imposed by scientific commitment and supported by available tools, There are pioneering attempts that should be adopted and supported by scientific and research institutions. Keywords: Vernacular Language, Colloquial Language, Vocabulary, Dictionaries, Verification.
Residence in Non-Islamic Countries: A Study of Jurisprudence
- Dr. Amal bint Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al-Dabbasi
- Reseived: 2021 Received in Revised Form: 2021 Accepted: 2021
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To reside in non-Islamic countries, their motives and various reasons, including religious reasons, including scientific, economic, security, political, health, intellectual, moral and recreational, Residency in non-Islamic countries is divided into sections according to the motives and causes of the aforementioned, and according to time, permanent and temporary residency, and according to the place, the country of residence to and from, The paradox of the non-Muslim country is obligatory in the sentence to the hour to every unbeliever Muslim in the House of disbelief, and migration to the House of Islam did not copy, and did not stop, Staying in non-Muslim countries If it is an original home in terms of prohibition and not divided into sections, a section must be paradoxically House of infidelity, and forbidden to reside in it, a Muslim unable to show his religion, afraid of the harm of the infidels, capable of them, In the case of disbelief, and may be simply agitated by that in another case, and is a sinner in both cases: and a section that does not forbid him, and he is safe on his religion, able to show him, safe from the harm of infidels, and who is allowed to reside in non-Islamic countries also vulnerable, and in the survival of the interest of legitimate considered, but may be said by the imperative or necessary in the survival of interest, according to the interest arising, Staying in non-Muslim countries due to the transfer of Muslim from the countries of Islam to proceed in the conditions: go out with the imam of the House of War, and forced to pay corrupt or to achieve interest, and necessarily attached to the need, and the legitimacy of what is said conditional on things, To stay in non-Muslim countries even temporarily; to watch, or picnic, do not proceed to the apparent texts that indicate the general prohibition, and most of them stay in their country love of disbelief and his family and advocacy them are forbidden by consensus, whether permanent residence as passed, And to prevent the residence of a variety of them: not to contact the infidels, and increase the blackness, and watch their denunciations, and others. Keywords: Residence, Non-Islamic Countries, A study of Jurisprudence.
