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Proposed Measures to Immunize Arab Youth against Hostile Currents: A Field Study on the Education Qualification Diploma Students at the Faculty of Education, University of Damascus Year of publication: 2008 Author: كنعان، أحمد علي Corporate author: Damascus University This study aimed at exploring the hostile currents that target Arab youth in the 21st century and identifying their main channels and approaches in influencing their principles, values, behaviour and personalities and the extent to which Arab youth and their behaviour are influenced by these currents. A special questionnaire of seven parameters was designed and used with 200 male and female students of the qualification diploma in education, all of whom were graduate students, both arts and sciences faculties, of 2004/2005. The results showed that the media came in first place among the channels through which hostile curents reach out to our Arab Nation. Imitating, social copying, the wish to change, resenting their reality and rebelling against it came first among the reasons behind allowing youth to be influenced by hostile currents, while moving away from all that is Arab came as the last reason. The values carried by hostile currents were ranked as follows: lying, hypocracy,secterianism, classicism, arrogance, lack of self confidence and dependency. The negative impact on the youth reflects itself in practices that show: deviation in moral behaviour, imitating the West in clothing and eating in addition to imitating Western ways in talking and language while ignoring the values and principles of religion. Results also show that the negative effects on the personalities of the youth include duplicity, dependency and alienation and that the ways of providing them with immunity against those currents include synergizing the efforts of the educational, media, religious and social institutions against those currents. 
Requirement for Activating the Relationship between the School and the Society in the light of School Community : A Field Research in the Public and Private teaching schools in Damascus Year of publication: 2013 Author: منصور، سمية Corporate author: Damascus University This research aimed to identify: the requirement for activating the relationship between the school and the society, the degree of independent variables effect (the status of the respondent, the school level and the belonging of the school) on the sample’s responses (from the principals, teachers, parents and educational experts) to the questions of the research tool.The research has reached the following findings: firstly, in order to make the relationship between school and society more effective, the school should satisfy the following four fundamental matters: Providing integrated services to the local society, achieving the partnership with the family, mobilizing the resources of the local society and enforcing voluntary work. Secondly, the effect of respondent's position variable was in favor of the managers, the teachers, the educational experts and parents respectively. Thirdly, the type of the school or its level has influenced the responses of the sample members at the general or total level as well as at the particular level for each sector of the field sectors, and this influence was in favor of basic education schools. Fourthly, there was no influence of belonging to the school variable on the sample responses whether on general or particular levels.The research introduced some suggestions and proposals, for the partnership between school and society such as, the agreement of Syrian Ministry of education to legalize and implement the approach of effecting the relationship between school and society on the one hand, and to encourage parents, local community and schools to participate and cooperate.