Attitude of Primary School Teachers Toward the Teaching of Moral Education in Atiba Local Government Oyo
CHAPTER ONE
Objective of Study
- To identify major attitude of primary school teachers toward the teaching of moral education. Especially in Atiba local government, Oyo.
- To examine the factors which are responsible for such acts of immorality
- To suggest ways of curbing immorality among the primary school pupils generally and particularly in Atiba local government, Oyo.
- To find out the causes and effects of immorality among pupils.
CHAPTER TWO
WHAT IS IMMORALITY?
Immorality is a term that is being used by many people when they want to describe the behaviour or people that runs few of the societal expectations.
Ezsewu (1985) expresses immorality “is a deviant” person. Deviant on the other hand is used as a synonym for immorality.
According to him a “deviant” is that some body whose behaviour does not confirm with that prescribed by the society. In touches on the issues of “good” and bad”.
In other word it is assumed that certain attitudes and behaviour are well acceptable to the society. These are behavioural expectation that the society cherishes and would want to transmit from one generation to another such worthy attitudes respect law and orders, respect for elders, perseverance, trust worthy, neatness, punctuality, caring attitude, kindness and a host of other.
On the other hand, an act that is bound to tarnish the image of the person so exhibit his family members, his school, community, mates and his regarded as bad and the society generally frown at it. Stress fighting, unnecessary protest (rioting) dirtiness, rudeness, bulling, vandalism, wickedness, keeping of bad friends smoking, late-coming to school, truancy, among other come under strict by the members of the community.
Awoniyi (2006), found that, the entire larger society could also serve as a source of moral decadence culminating into immorality act by the pupils at now the society is corrupted and high materialistic. The pupils are equally products of the society. Consciously or unconsciously they want to exhibits the behavioural patterns of the adult in the society.
For example the smoke, keep girl friends, fight e.t.c. the school however is expected to be a societal institution established to curb the excess of the society. Be that as it way, as teachers, when such bad habits are exhibited we need to find their roots and curb them.
MEANING OF MORAL EDUCATION?
The origin of the word (moral education) could be traced to the Latin word ‘disco’ which means I learn by implication means to submit to rules that govern what is to be learnt e.g. Rules of correct grammar or how to play organ music e.t.c. Generally there may be values which are consequences for learning something. Education has to do with learning and learning in turn involves moral education, therefore education necessarily involves moral education.
Moral education can be categorized into two. These are self-moral education and external imposed education, self-imposed moral education is willingness without necessarily for fear of punishment or any form of occasion. This form of moral education is commendable and has a lot of quality, the task of nominal progress in their work/study as well so individual could decide to skip meals in order to reduce weight gamed or decide to avoid alcohol not probably because a particular religion frowns at but out of his own violation.
External moral education as manifested in school setting is when teachers coerce pupils into acting ways or when sanctions are imposed for contravening rules moral education in one form or another is necessary to education. It is conceptually necessary to it in that some-forms of moral education are part of our under standing of education because of connection between education and learning moral education.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This research deals with method used in data it describes the population sample, sampling techniques, the research instrument, it also describes the validity of research instrument of data analysis
RESEARCH DESIGN
The design used for the study was survey research design in which random sampling method was used to select the school involved in the study. The interview was used to find out more information on the case study the result collected was analyzed on the simple percentage basis. It would attitude of primary school toward the teaching of moral education.
POPULATION AND SAMPLE
The population targets for the study were all primary schools in Atiba Local Government, Oyo. The population consisted of all social studies teachers and other educationist relevant with Government issues in Atiba Local Government Oyo
Five primary schools in Atiba Local Government were sued as a sample for the study.
In each of the schools, teachers chosen as sample, given a total of 120 respondents for the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION OF RESULTS
INTRODUCTION
This chapter deals with the results obtained from the questionnaire. However, it was earlier instructed in the questionnaire that respondents were requested to answer “yes or no” each of the question based on this research work.
Below are the findings and results of the research topic: causes and attitude of primary schools teachers toward the teaching of moral education. All data collected from respondents in the cause of this study were analyzed question by question.
ANALYSIS OF RESPONSES
Table 1: Response on whether lack of adequate parental care is the cause of immorality among pupils or not.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION
SUMMARY
The main motive behind this study is to find the attitude of primary school teachers toward the teaching of moral education.
The researcher made use of some scholar which their work is useful in this course of study so as to make it comprehensive and realistic.
According to Adeyemi M.B (2001) in his work on integral approach to teaching in school submitted that, there is no innovation that is completely free from difficulties encountered and school subject as a subject in the teacher’s curriculum in Nigeria has also had it up and down. The lack of an acceptable definition in the seems to be a problem that always been discussed at seminars and conferences, related o this the problem of untrained teacher.
Furthermore, some problems are identified on this research work i.e. inadequate of textbooks, poor method of teaching inadequate infrastructural resources positive of interest by the pupils school age and so on.
The researcher made use of questionnaire to gather necessary information as regards to the cause of study and the researcher in teaching in Oyo metropolis area in Oyo state.
RECOMMENDATION
Therefore, the following recommendation have been made, using the finding in course of the study as basis.
- Teacher should Endeavour to create a friendly relationship with their pupil so as to make lesson more interesting alongside with the use of appropriate instructional materials.
- Short time Limitation should be discouraged by the school authority and enough time should be allocated for school subject thereby adequate coverage of the syllabus will be done for a proper understanding.
- Both the parent and the laboratory instruction strategy of teachers should Endeavour in making adequate provision for school subject text books for the pupils so that they will be well awarded.
- The government and philanthropist should be able to provide some materials that are necessary such as radio recorder, projector, television, films trips and chants so as to effective teaching in primary schools.
- Government should be able to employ enough and qualified teachers alongside with those that are specialist to develop curriculum thereby improving effective teaching in schools.
- Lastly, teachers should be trained on how to make use of appropriate method of teaching class.
CONCLUSION
It was believes that this study was designed to find out the attitude of primary school teachers toward the teaching of moral education.
From the study various difficulties encounters are identified and discussed and family suggested solution about learning in our primary schools sector of education.
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