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|b The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of democratic culture among students’ union members in public Jordanian universities as perceived by students. Moreover, proposing an educational strategy to develop the democratic culture among students’ union members in public Jordanian universities. The sample of the study consisted of all Unions’ members in Jordan university, Yarmouk university and Muta’a university in the academic year 2015/2016 totaling (242) male and female students. To achieve the aim of the study the researcher administrated a questionnaire consisted of (75) items distributed into three domains: knowledge of democratic culture, values of democratic culture and practices of democratic culture. The findings showed that the means ranged between (2.71-3.78) with an average evaluation level as knowledge of democratic culture domain came first with a mean (3.78) and high evaluation level while, practices of democratic Lived Experiences of Political Engagement. Journal of Political Science Education, 2, 285–302. Lucky,. K (2014). Higher Education and Democracy in Botswana: Attitudes and behaviors of students and student leaders towards democracy (Doctoral dissertation, University of the Western Cape). Mari ,J ,A and Apple ,M ,W(2005):The case of democratic schools." ASCD.V.A. Pollicion , E ( 2000) " Faculty Satisfaction with institutional Support as complex concept , collegiality , workload , Autonomy " ERIC , 39448 : Factor School Effectiveness. Retrieved on 5 October, 2015 from http://files.ERIC.ed.gov/fulltext/ED394428.pdf Sam K, Robert M, & Michelle R,. (2011). The University in Africa and democratic citizenship by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET), House Vincent, First Floor, 10 Brodie Road, Wynberg Mews, Wynberg, 7800 Telephone: (27)21 763–7100. Senturk,I., & Oyman, N,. (2014). Democratic Classroom Management in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 14(3), 940-945. Stockemer, D. (2012). Students' Political Engagement: A Comprehensive Study of University of Ottawa Undergraduate Students. Journal of Youth Studies, culture domain came in the last rank with a mean of (2.71) and average evaluation level. The findings showed that there were no significant statistical differences at the level of (α =0.05) attributed to gender in all domains and the total score. There were significant statistical differences at the level of (α =0.05) attributed to college variable in all domains and the total score except for practices of democratic culture in favor of humanitarian colleges. There were significant statistical differences at the level of (α =0.05) attributed to study level variable between the fourth year and both second and third years in favor of the forth year in knowledge of democratic culture domain, and between fourth and second years in favor of the first in values of democratic culture and the total score. The researcher designed a proposed educational strategy to develop the democratic culture among students’ union members in public Jordanian universities. Based on the findings the researcher presented several recommendations.
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