CASE STUDY: OHAOZARA LOCAL
GOVERNMENT AREA OF EBONYI STATE
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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.
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 give....................
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
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S/N
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ITEMS
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A
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%
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SA
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%
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D
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%
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SD
|
%
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TOTAL
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|||||||
|
1
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By the principal and members of their staff
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80
|
40
|
60
|
30
|
40
|
20
|
20
|
10
|
100%
|
|||||||
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Lack of interest in the subject by students
|
70
|
35
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90
|
45
|
10
|
5
|
30
|
15
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100%
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|||||||
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Caused by the influence
of the peer groups.
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64
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32
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100
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50
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18
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9
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18
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9
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100%
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|||||||
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Inadequacy of resources for
formal moral and religious instructions.
|
90
|
45
|
110
|
55
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-
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-
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-
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-
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100%
|
|||||||
|
3
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Inactive nature of teachers
due to poor conditions of service
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60
|
30
|
90
|
45
|
20
|
10
|
30
|
15
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100%
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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.
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S/N
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ITEMS
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A
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%
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SA
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%
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D
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%
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SD
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%
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TOTAL
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|
1
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There is in increase in student’s discipline
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20
|
10
|
28
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14
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42
|
21
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110
|
55
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100%
|
|
2
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There is a remarkable
reduction in examination malpractices among students.
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10
|
5
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8
|
4
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80
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40
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102
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51
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100%
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APPENDIX
Department
of Educational
Administration/
Social Studies
Institute
of Ecumenical Education, Thinkers Corner, Enugu in Affiliation with ESUT
July,
2013
Respondent,
I am a final year degree student of the Department of
Educational administration/social studies.
Conducting a research on the studies of students towards moral and
religious instructions in secondary school in Ohaozara.
Please, kindly supply answers to questionnaires
below
The
research is purely on academic exercise in partial fulfillment of the degree
requirement.
Yours
faithfully
(Name)
A RESEARCH PROJECT PRESENTED TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION/ SOCIAL STUDIES
INSTITUTE OF ECUMENICAL EDUCATION IN
AFFILIATION WITH ENUGU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ESUT)