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 Volume 7, Issue 3 (March 2020), Pages: 9-16

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 Original research Paper

 Title: University students' perception of how informal education influences cultural security: A Saudi institution experience

 Author(s): Mohamed S. Aly, Sayed M. Ismail *, Hussam A. Badawy

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of English Language, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6698-006X

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2020.03.002

 Abstract:

This article reports a study conducted on Saudi university students, including both males and females. The study used a 21 items questionnaire that aims to elicit students' responses regarding social security and to what extent formal education could affect their perception of cultural security. These questions are designed to check the students' perception and understanding of culture and cultural security within the Saudi context and they also aim to show how Saudi society could influence and shape many cultural and ideological concepts adopted by Saudi university students. Other questions were written in the questionnaire in order to elicit students' views on the role of informal education in enhancing their concept of cultural security, as the idea of informal education is subsumed under small categories like social, media, religious and family categories. After analyzing their views and responses to the questions of the questionnaire, it was revealed that both males and females agreed on defining culture as ‘a scientific and academic knowledge’ and a representation of ‘social and family values’ which construct the ‘identity of individuals’. However, there has been a salient contrast between males and females regarding the role of culture. Females disagreed with the assumption that culture helps people ‘to appreciate modern art’. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Informal education, Cultural instability, Collectivism, Online radicalization, Cyberwarfare

 Article History: Received 12 September 2019, Received in revised form 22 December 2019, Accepted 23 December 2019

 Acknowledgment:

No Acknowledgment.

 Funding:

This research has received fund from Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University under the number 2017/02/8141.

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 Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Aly MS, Ismail SM, and Badawy HA (2020). University students' perception of how informal education influences cultural security: A Saudi institution experience. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 7(3): 9-16

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