The School strives to provide education of the highest quality; to encourage critical and creative thinking; to promote freedom of expression and academic debate; and to foster ethical values based on social justice, diversity, and mutual respect and understanding. The aim of the School’s pedagogy is to produce cosmopolitan, independent-minded researchers who think globally and act locally. Drawing on the university’s emphasis on social development and civic engagement, the School stresses the importance of research that can benefit the needs of the local community in Jordan.