Abstract

This study tries to reveal the university students viewpoint in practicing the article of the international declaration of human rights in Jordanian society > this was done through a random sample consisting of 192 students of facilities of arts and education in Yarmouk University > to measure this viewpoint the researchers designed an instrument for this purpose which included all the articles of the international declaration of human rights and monitored the responses of the members of this samples to these articles according to an evaluative scale consisting of four levels (4) being the highest and (1) the lowest . Eight independent variables have been introduced into this study . Their effect on the dependent variables representing the articles of the international declaration of human rights has been examined through suitable statistical tests , means, and (T) tests and one-way variation analysis . The study has come to conclusion most important of which are the following : 1- Members of the sample were un animus that all the articles of the International Declaration of Human Rights are practiced at a high level in Jordanian society the lowest being 2.16 and the highest being 3.53 on a scale whose maximum is 4 and minimum is 1 . 2- The articles of the international Declaration of human rights which were in agreement with Islamic legislation and the Jordanian constitution have attained the highest averages the lowest of which was 2.7 and the highest 3.53 . 3- Seven of the eight independent variables were the school type , the cultural level , the place of residence , the dedications to human rights , the degree of acquaintance with human rights . their averages of means had no statistical significance , which shows that the conceptions of students ( as dependent variables ) are very close to one another and harmoniously follow the same direction leading to similarity and unanimity in the students views and estimation of the degree of practicing the articles of the International Declaration of Human Rights . 4- The difference between the medial of the independent variable “source of the knowledge of the articles of human rights “ resulted in differences of statistical significance at a level a =0.05 which was in favor of the source of audible and visible media and also the source of book and magazine reading . The research gave recommendations about enhancing the citizens awareness of the texts of Jordanian legislation within the framework of the constitution and the laws ;planning for an information campaign to educate citizens about practicing the articles of the articles of the international declaration of human rights in Jordanian society over and above introducing into the teaching curricula a ground work of general legislative education and high lighting the legislation related to the rights of the citizen who as a member of Jordanian society in particular .