The Role of Universities in Social Reconstruction

Abstract

The theory of social reconstruction is one of the intended theories in the major of educational philosophy that have had significant influence on the education and training and the academic centers in the west. Based on this theory, the human beings transform into the social engineers that are able to program the evolution route and use the science and technology in the case of achieving the optimum goals. Thus, the academic centers should be question-centered and be aware of the society’s matters. This means that they should identify the crises of a society and equip the students for facing these crises by means of utilizing the social reconstruction role. In this regard, the present study investigates the current crises of the society. Then, it suggests 21 roles that the universities, the main centers for reconstructing the society, have to implement in order for resolving these crises; 1- identifying, training, and guiding the new reference groups in the direction of society’s optimum values; 2- refining and rebuilding the past values and according them with new valuable creations in society; 3- restructuring the Islamic patterns and texts; 4- strengthening the sense of attachment to national and bias sovereignty; 5- Reconstruction of Cultural Coexistence between different Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Groups in 7- restructuring the coexistence culture between different ethnic groups, religions, and languages; 8- developing and training the life skills appropriate to the effects caused by industrialization and trans-industrialization; 6- strengthening the free-thinking tables 9- recruiting needed human source in the age of information and technology; 10- establishing software in the modern world media; 11- institutionalizing the respect for laws and regulation among adolescents; 12- strengthening religious and valuable norms and redefining them; 13- strengthening the viewpoint of rural life versus creation of negative attitudes toward urban life; 14- preparing a comprehensive rural life program; 15- changing the adolescents’ attitudes towards occupation; 16- training entrepreneuring; 17- admitting and introducing elite graduates for scientific and administrative bodies; 18- strengthening domestic self-esteem in world scenes; 19- strengthening the culture of consumption of natural resources especially water resources; 20- creating and strengthening the culture of resistive economy among students; and 21- creating environmental attitudes among students.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s6p271