The Effectiveness of Teaching Islamic Culture Courses in Developing Tolerance Values among Irbid University College Students

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of teaching Islamic culture courses in developing tolerance values ​​among Irbid University College students. To achieve the objective of the study, the researchers prepared a scale to measure the estimates of the individuals in developing tolerance values, consisting of (48) items distributed into five dimensions: intellectual and cultural and has nine items, religious has ten items, political has nine items, social has eleven items, and scientific has nine items. The study sample consisted of (226) students from Irbid University College of the academic year 2019/2020, and they were selected randomly, (81) students from scientific majors and (145) students from humanities. (119) students who registered the Islamic culture course were selected as participants for the experimental group, and  (107) students who did not register the Islamic culture course were selected as individuals for the control group. The results of the study revealed that there is a statistically significant difference between the estimates of the two groups on the domains of tolerance values(Intellectual, cultural, religious, social and scientific) Individually and collectively, in favor of the estimates of the experimental group members, And there were no statistically significant differences between the estimates of the two groups on the domain of tolerance values ​​(intellectual, cultural, religious, political, social, and scientific) individually and collectively which is attributed to the major variable and the interaction between the variables of the group and the major.