The ubiquitous social networking site, Facebook, registered over one billion active users in 2012 and continues to grow (Facebook, 2018a). Not surprisingly, communication researchers around the world noticed this phenomenal shift in communication practice, a practice aided by a combination of digital communication tools--easy to access communication networks, low cost bandwidth, smartphones, ap…
As colleges of education prepare to meet NCATE standards they will find technically savvy allies and willing partners at their campus libraries. The information literacy and technology targets in the standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) parallel the information literacy standards developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). A…
The press is linked to law from several quarters. From one side linked to the constitutional law. As part of the Iraqi constitution in public freedoms and the freedom of the media, one of these freedoms and related to the criminal law that faces the abuses of some journalists in the course of practicing their profession. The civil law determines the civil responsibility of the journalist in the…
The paper presents an overview of Syed Abul Aa'la Maudoodi's philosophical thoughts and its applications to educational process. Syed Abul Aa'la Maudoodi was a great thinker of Islam and a famous religious of the world. He gave logics in a philosophical style and proved that Islam is an absolute system of life. In his tafsir (Quranic interpretation) Tafhim'ul Quran he introduce the four interre…
Should the US government and the international community actively promote religion overseas, especially in the Islamic world? Such an approach may seem wrong on many grounds. Religion is a major force driving jihadists in the Middle East, and separation of state and religion is one of the cornerstones of US democracy and the type of regime the United States promotes abroad. And, as young people…
This study analyzes the connections among multilingual language practices, multilingual literacy practices, and social identities in two Sunni madrassahs in Mauritius. The study is framed by sociolinguistic and poststructuralist perspectives on language and identity, and social practice views of literacy. Data collection and analysis involved observations, interviews, and the analysis of writte…
This article traces the early and medieval Islamic scholarship to the development of critical and scientific thinking and how they contributed to the development of an Islamic theory of epistemology and scientific thinking education. The article elucidates how the Qur'an and the Sunna of Prophet Muhammad have also contributed to the development of Islamic epistemology and the production of the …
In the last decade, social media gradually increased their popularity on daily routines since people have accustomed to the new information and communication technologies. In terms of university students, the popularity of the internet is obvious, with the fact that their intense mood for searching adventures usually end up in social media. This study examined social media, particularly Faceboo…
Background Suboptimal understanding of depression and mental health disorders by the general population is an important contributor to the wide treatment gap in depression. Mental health literacy encompasses knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders and supports their recognition, management, and prevention. Besides knowledge improvement, psychoeducational interventions reduce symptoms of…
One purpose of this paper is to present a concept of intercultural communication skills. It describes the international online debate as a method of long distance learning in marketing and management education, and as a way to promote the discourse about sustainability. While such online debates have been part of the curriculum at a few U.S. and German universities for some time, they were intr…