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المستخلص ABSTRACT Education in underdeveloping countries faces a lot of troubles and obstacles that hinder its development and progress. The field of the adult education and illiteracy is the root field that suffers a lot of these problems, so it is unavoidable to take care of this kind of education and study its problems - a scientific study through. which we can put successful solutions and draw plans for its development. The social problems that face-the students and teachers in the adult classes are the main problems that face this kind of education and entangles the educational process in it, and that is why the writer studied this problem in order to diagnose and suggest the suitable solutions to improve the educational process in this field. For this reason, I summed up the problems of this Research in the following questions: 1. What are the social problems that face the students in the adult education classes and illiteracy elimination in the Medinah Area? - -_ .. - ---------------- -2- 2. Is there any statistical differences in the social problems, between married and unmarried students? 3. Is there any statistical differences between the students aged (10-19) and those over 20? 4. Is there any statistical differences between regular and part-time students? 5. Is there any statistical differences between students transferred from elementary school and those who are not transferred? 6. What are the social differences between problems that face teachers in the adult classes in the Medinah area? 7. Is there any statistical differences in social problems between graduated and non-graduated teachers? 8. Is there any statistical differences between the teachers with (l-5) years experience and those whose experience is more than 5 years? 9. Is there any statistical differences between the teachers who attended training sessions and those who did not? The Main Objectives of this Research can be summarized as follows: 1. To find out the social problems that face the students in the adult and illiteracy classes in the Medina Area. -3- 2. To identify the differences in social problems between students according to the following alternatives: the social state, age, occupation and educational background. 3. To find out the social problems that face the teachers in the adult and illiteracy classes in the Medinah Area. 4. To find out the differences between the teachers according to the following alternatives: qualification, experience and training sessions in this field. 5. To give recommendations and suggestions according to the results which might help in progressing the troubles of the adult education and in turn helps in improving the educational process. After undergoing a theoretical study for the topics related to this research such as the beginning of the adult education and its development in Saudi Arabia and the education in the Medinah Area, and the social and educational problems. After discussing a group of previous studies in this field the hypothesis of this research were done as follows: 1. There are social problems that face the students in the adult classes which we can sum out. 2. There are differences of statistical nature in the social problems between the married and unmarried students. -4- J. There are statistical differences between students aged (10-19) and those who are more than 20. 4. There are statistical differences between regular and part-time students. 5. There are statistical differences between the students transferred from the elementary school and those who are not. 6. There are social problems facing the teachers that we can sum out. 7. There are statistical differences between graduated teachers and the ungraduated teachers. 8. There are statistical differences between the teachers of ( 1 - 5 ) years experience and those whose experience exceeds 5 years. 9. There are statistical differences between the teachers who attend training sessions and those who did not. To verify the objectives of this study and to test its assumptions I follow the comming steps: First: Preparing the Study A. Students Forms The form is based on a free investigating meeting with the students then we calculate the rate of its validity to use it as a tool to measure the social problems th~t face the students in the illiteracy elemination classes. __________ ~-~ ____J -5- B. Teachers forms An investigating study was prepared for the teachers to find out the social problems that may face them, and according to this study a form was prepared and its validity was checked for use. Second: Application: A. Students: I. The final study was applied on a sample of the students and its results were analysed by calculating the percentages of the individual responses to the items of the study for each problem. II. The student’s lists were classified into two groups according to the following criteria: social state, age, occupation and the educational background, and according to the percentage of eah group and how common is each problem the:differences were calculated using (X)1.: B. Teachers forms: I. The final form was applied on a group of teachers and its results were analyzed accordingly by calculating the percentages of individual responses to the items of the study for each problem - - ----~~~---- -------~ -6- II. The teachers forms were classified into two groups according to the following criteria: qualification, experience, and the training sessions attended in this field and the differences between those groups was calculated using the corrected <It] test. THE RESULTS OF THIS RESEARCH. 1. There is a fixed relationship between the social problems and the changes in social conditions, while the results might occur as a result to the inability of the individual and the community to accommodate with the new circumstances. 2. A good relationship between the teacher and the students is the best means with which a teacher can reach the educational goals. 3. Educational problems are the most hard troubles that face the adult education in the Arab World generally. 4. One of the main problems is the rejection of the illiterates to join these programmes and even those who join, might leave it soon. 5. One of the problems is that people think that these programes are only concerned with learning reading and writing only. -7- 6. Although a lot of efforts were spent to deminate the problems of illiteracy in the Kingdom, but still working in this field faces a lot of troubles and obstacles that decreases the amount of best results expected. 7. Although serious efforts were spent to eliminate the problems of illiteracy in the Medina Area but still the percentage of illiterants is about 71.7%. 8. The students in these classes suffer more than 19 social problems which its hardness ranged from (20, 36.to 52, 39 %) and can be classified according to its hardness as follows: irregularity of students, the disagreement between the time of classes and the students occupations, unexpected guest during the class-time, financial trOUbles that cause irregularity in the classes. Fathers in these classes are careless about their sons, social responsibilities hinders regularity in the class, students cannot join a lot Of social activities, carelessness in family responsibilities, parents feel shy to go to school in front of their children~ There are no much financial facilities to encourage students to study, lack of social relations between students, creation of family troubles because of the learning responsibilities lack of co-operative spirits, troubles caused by the differences between students ages, there are not good social position for students, friends do ndtencourage the -8- students to complete their study. 9. There are statistical differences between students in the following fields: social position, age, occupation, educational background. 10. Teachers in these classes suffer from 14 acute social problems, .the degree of its hardness vary from (22, 15 to 76, 58 %) and was arranged as follows: The student care much for the degree inspite of the knowledge, different ages among the students of the same class, students would not accept the young teachers, working in these classes prevent teachers from participating in different social activities, the students from elementary school are not· accepted by other students, community think that work in these classes is for financial benefit for the teacher, working in these classes prevents the teacher from following up his son~’s study, participation of personal relationship in distributing the work between the teachers,lack of social spirits, teachers come late to school because of the visits of unexpected guests. 11. There are statistical differences between the teachers in: qualification, training sessions attended in this field. -9- 12. There are no statistical differences in social problems between teachers experienced from 1 -- 5 years and those experienced over 5 years. According to the results of this study, I suggested some comments and some recommendations which might help us to overcome the social problems that face teachers and students in the adult, and illiteracy elimination classes which might, in turn, help in developing the education proces~ in these classes. |