A Proposed Geography Unit in Arab Water Security on Developing the Concepts of Water, Water Security Awareness and Creative Problem-Solving for Students in Technical Education

Abstract

The research studyed aimed to identify the impact of a proposed Geography unit in Arab Water Security on developing the water security-related concepts, water security awareness and creative problem-solving for technical education students. To achieve this objective, a list of Arab Water Security dimensions was prepared, and a proposed unit in light of the reached list was constructed. Then, the proposed unit was analyzed in order to generate Water Securityrelated concepts. This was followed by constructing Water Security-Related Concepts Test, Water Security Awareness Scale, Creative Problem-Solving Scale. The research group – one expeirmental group design )n = 40( was selected among Technical-Secondary-One students )5-Year Business High- School System( at Assiut Educational Administration, Egypt. Then, the test and the two scales were pre-administered to the research group to which the proposed unit was taught. Finally, the three research tools were postadministered to the research group to identify the effect of the proposed unit on developing Water Security-related concepts, Water Security Awareness and Creative Problem Solving for the research group. Based on both pre- and post-adminstration of the research tools which were analyzed using t-test, results indicated statistically significant differences between the mean scores of students in favour of the post-adminstration. To identify the effect size, ETA square was used; accordingly, it was found that the proposed unit had an impact on the development the target concepts, awareness and creative problem solving for the target students.