ممارسة السياحة الفكرية بجامعة السلطان قابوس من وجهة نظر أعضاء هيئة التدريس فيها و علاقتها ببعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

The intellectual tourism (ITo) is considered as one of the contemporary perspectives of thought.

It reflects multi-visionary meanings of science, rational, social, cultural, political and technological aspects of life.

The practices of the ITo is raised under the academic freedom and intellectual communication of the thought of sharing, exchanging and disseminating knowledge in a democratic professional academic university and higher education institutions.

Those practices shaped in many academic forms and styles such as conferences, symposiums, seminar, workshops, lectures, meetings...etc.

Therefore the aim of this study is to investigate the practicing of ITo in Sultan Qaboos University SQU in terms of academic freedom, especially in the new context of multicultural democracy global world.

So this study will answer the following questions : 1-To what extend does Sultan Qaboos University activate the intellectual tourism practicing among faculty members? 2-Is there any statistical differences at (a = 0.05) in the level of Sultan Qaboos University activating the intellectual tourism among faculty members due to their point of views in reference to gender, speciality variables.

To answer the research questions, a descriptive approach is applied.

The main tool of the study is the questionnaire.

It consisted of 40 statements distributed in three ITos’ domains : affective, usefulness, and obstacles.

Data were collected from sample of 7% of the total population.

The results of the study show that SQU practicing the TIo exists in many colleges, departments and research centers beside the conducting and hosting conferences and symposiums.

The number of faculty member who participate in international conferences and symposiums is increasing by 0.44 during the last five academic years.

Also the result shows that there is no statistical significant difference among faculty perspectives in the level of SQU practicing TIo due to gender and specialty variables.

In the light of the results, a number of recommendations and suggestions were proposed.