5. The role of Education in Facing Globalization and the Challenges
of the Twenty-First Century and the Reinforcement of Civilized Identity
and the Belonging
to the Nation.
Abstract
This research aims to throw light on the challenges which hinder
education in the Arab nation and how to face these challenges, on the
top of which is the cultural obliteration and foreign domination under
the new globalization and the domination of the only polar on world
cultures sand how to challenge it through the reinforcement of the
civilization identity and national belonging for the national identity is
considered a basic resource for the philosophy of society which takes
its foundations from it, and this philosophy is the resource of current
educational theories to develop education with its different forms and
stages , and the establishment of developed new curricula , and
benefiting from the data of moderns technology and multi educational
technology in preparing teachers and their continuous rehabilitation
and training ,and the reinforcement of essential values and positive
attitudes in themselves ,taking advantage from the experiment of
Syrian Arab country in this field to develop education and preparation
of teachers in faculties of education ,and the modernization of
educational curricula .
The research ends with the assurance of the fundamental civilized
Arab identity and a call for facing the different challenges and the
reinforcement of national belonging to the sons of Arab nation
through:
- Rejecting the foreign cultural domination ,and reinforcing the
Arab cultural identity by supporting the Arabic language,
reinforcing its position ,and the activation of national
development.
- Developing instructional curricula to cope with the new world
civilization.
- Preparing and training teachers to face the different forms of
challenges, to instill the Arab values and the democratic spirit in
themselves and students selves and representing it as real
behavior in their daily lives to achieve the supreme aims for the
Arab education.
-Using modern and developed educational technology to serve
the nation message equipped with science and knowledge through
6. electronic communication nets and developed computers in the
age of education ,culture, and cognitive explosion.
Finally ,a focus should be on future education , and emphasis on
civilized identity for Arab nation, developing it, and keeping its
essence nationally and humanly since it is the source of creativity
and interaction with the different world cultures.
