ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS TOWARDS MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS TOWARDS MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OHAOZARA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EBONYI STATE

A RESEARCH PROJECT PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION/ SOCIAL STUDIES

This project written under instruction of the candidate’s project committee and approved by the member of the committee has been presented to and accepted by the school SSE/EDA. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Education.

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            The ominous features of the moral climate of our school are ubiquitous and conspicuous even to causal observed rampant fraud, stealing and robbery with violence, gross indiscipline, truancy, examination malpractices or cheating in an examination, occultisms. All these and more, characterize the attitudes of our students in Ohaozara secondary schools which relegates the poison of moral and religious instructions to the background. These and more constitute problems which need urgent solutions. 

3. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of students towards moral and religious instructions in secondary schools in Ohaozara .

NEED FOR THE STUDY 

The study shows the reasons responsible for the attitude of students’ attitude forwards moral and religious institutions in secondary school in Ohaozara Local Government Area  students)  exhibit lukewarm and wanton attitudes towards the subject. Only very few students react positively both in theory and  practice  towards  moral and religious instruction for their moral growth and development. Hence Chijioke (1981) further  maintained  “the twin subject  is hardly separable as it pursues  the same vital  goal targeted at reducing and probably eliminating our meaning social  norms (P.4) 

Travers (1978) maintained that,

Religious instruction given

CHAPTER THREE

RESULTS

This chapter records the results of data analysis presented according to research questions.

RESEARCHER QUESTION

If negative attention of students towards the moral and religious instructions caused by poor school management?

Table 1

S/N	ITEMS	A	%	SA	%	D	%	SD	%	TOTAL
1	By the principal  and members of their staff	80	40	60	30	40	20	20	10	100%
	Lack of  interest in the subject by students	70	35	90	45	10	5	30	15	100%
	Caused by the influence of  the peer  groups.	64	32	100	50	18	9	18	9	100%

 

2	Inadequacy of resources for formal moral and religious instructions.	90	45	110	55	–	–	–	–	100%
3	Inactive nature of teachers due to poor  conditions  of service	60	30	90	45	20	10	30	15	100%

Research question 4

To what extent was moral and religious instructions checked moral decadence among students in our secondary school in Ohaozara  and the society  in general.

S/N	ITEMS	A	%	SA	%	D	%	SD	%	TOTAL
1	There is  in increase in student’s discipline	20	10	28	14	42	21	110	55	100%
2	There is a remarkable reduction in examination malpractices among students.	10	5	8	4	80	40	102	51	100%

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Department of Educational 

Administration/ Social Studies

Institute of Ecumenical Education, Thinkers Corner, Enugu in Affiliation with ESUT

July, 2008