مستوى معرفة معلمي الدراسات الاجتماعية في سلطنة عمان بمهارات استشراف المستقبل وصعوبات تدريسها من وجهة نظرهم
This study aimed to reveal the level of knowledge of social studies teachers in the Sultanate of Oman of future foresight skills and the difficulties of teaching them from their point of view. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the mixed approach, where she prepared two tools for the study (a cognitive test and an interview). The cognitive test consists of (25) questions distributed over five clusters: the skill of future imagination, the skill of solving future problems, the skill of making decisions, the skill of forecasting, and the skill of future visualization. The interview consisted of (16) questions, and after verifying the validity and stability of the two tools, they were applied to social studies teachers in the following governorates: Muscat, North Al Batinah, and South Al Batinah. Where the cognitive test was applied to (170) male and female teachers, while the interview was applied to eleven male and female teachers of social studies. The results of the study revealed that the level of knowledge of social studies teachers in the Sultanate of Oman of future foresight skills was low, where the arithmetic mean percentage in the teachers' cognitive test was (50.40%), the results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the level of knowledge of social studies teachers in the Sultanate of Oman of future foresight skills at the significance level (α ≥ 0.05)this is due to the variable of teaching experience in all skills. The interviews also revealed many difficulties that social studies teachers face in teaching future foresight skills, the most important of which are: teachers do not have sufficient experience in teaching skills, and social studies curricula do not include these skills. In light of these results, the researcher recommended the necessity of including future foresight skills in social studies curricula, and intensifying professional development programs that help develop these skills among teachers. (Author’s abstract)