Moral Decadence as a Potential Predictor of Students Academic Performance in Some Selected Senior High Schools in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana (original) (raw)
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2020
Introduction Unethical practices in Ghana are common among students from elementary to tertiary. According to Agyekum and Gambrah (2011), unethical actions or misconducts are not acceptable, as these activities do not meet with the rules and regulations of any educational institution in the country. It is postulated by Charlton and David (1993) that senior high schools are one specific stage of the educational system in a nation where all kinds of unethical activities are very widespread and tend to aggravate. Agyekum and Gambrah (2011) further states that students at this point are swept up in all kinds of unethical activities such as occultism, consuming obscene content, breaking school laws, rioting, drinking, substance addiction, and so on. Becker, Englermanns and Thomas (1997) added that instead of the school agitating persons with intellectual achievement and spiritual aptitude, the reverse is the truth and has catastrophic implications for the students themselves and the entire nation. It is believed that morality socially upholds principles, concepts, ideals and actions, laws and regulations that culture deems reasonable, correct and appropriate and under which members of community are tied (Muraino & Ugwumba, 2014). The concise concept of morality, according to Gert (2012) defines morality as a collection of actions placed forth by some group; even a community; and a normative meaning focused on the premise that what is moral should have a code of ethics promoted by a culture and should be adopted as a guide to action by representatives of that community. Odeh (2013) believed that the absence of maintaining solid morals in our culture is moral decadence. For their part, Muraino and Ugwumba (2014) proposed that moral decadence is the phenomenon of acting in a way that shows poor moral values. In a given culture it implies massive decline in fundamental standards. In this sense, moral decadence tends to be a decline in society's moral norm. It appears to deteriorate or fail in maintaining our ideals, principles, norms and ethical practices in society. Afuye (2015) described the types of moral decadence as; cultism, malpractice of test, underage abortion, exploitation of students, sexual assault, selling of 'degree,' presentation of students, substance addiction, improper clothing, etc.According to Elliott and Voss (1974), Henggeler (1989) students with high academic performance are expected to be less likely to indulge in unethical conduct than students with poorer academic accomplishment.
Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The study deals with teachers’ perceptions on the dimension of moral decadence among secondary school students in Ebony state of Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey designed which aimed at finding teachers’ perception on moral decadence among secondary school students. Ebonyi is the area of the study. Population of the study comprised all the Christian religious teachers in the area which is estimated at 322. 200 CRS teachers were selected for the study using purposive sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondent and mean and standard deviation were used to analyse data. The study revealed that there are many forms of decadence among secondary school students in Ebonyi, the causes of the decadence were revealed as well as possible strategies for restoring the problem. Based on the above findings recommendations were made to restore good morals among students. Keywords: Teachers’ Perception, Dimensions, Moral, Decadence,
Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Moral decadence among Nigerian youths and the role of parents and teachers is a search for the role parents and teachers could play in reduction and elimination of moral decadence among youths. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The area of the study is Abakaliki the capital of Ebonyi State. The population of the study is 300 teachers selected out of 845 teachers in the area. Simple random sampling technique was used for selection of the teachers. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data and mean used for data analysis. The results revealed among others that parents and teachers are capable of remoulding and shaping of youths moral behaviour; hence their active participation in character formation is required. Based on the findings, recommendations were made to remedy the situation Keywords: Moral decadence, Nigerian youths, Causes, Categories, Curbing strategy.
Elite Project Writers, 2021
The declining moral standards among secondary school students are becoming a challenge in the 21st century and a topic of discussion. Many stake holders and Scholars are wondering what could be the cause. Therefore, this study evaluated the causes of moral dissipation in secondary schools, the effects of moral decline amongst the students in secondary schools and what could be done in this 21st century to curb the causes of moral decline. The present study involved 30 participants that were randomly selected from three (3) secondary Schools in Educational District 4, Nigeria. This study used descriptive design, specifically literature from the library, newspapers, reports and interviews were used to complement the information on the moral decline in schools. The results showed that decline of morals among secondary students have been greatly affected by poor parenting, media, group influence, the use and development of various internet technologies such as facebook, sending and receiving emails, googling and charting. It is recommended that policy holders should compare what happened 1950’s when these sorts of technology had not yet introduced and what is going on today and forge partnership with teachers and parents to find the possible ways on how to curb the increasing moral decline in educational District 4, Nigeria. Keywords: Technology, student, moral decline, parenting
Forms of Moral Decadencies in Students in Higher Education
Khalifa: Journal of Islamic Education
Degradation of morals or moral decadencehas attacked young generations especially college students. Therefore, this paper aims to find out forms of moral decadence found in college students. This research uses qualitative method with case study approach, the data collected through direct interview with ten informants (college students) by using purposive sampling technique. In order to strenghten interview data, the writer performed passive participation observation by coming directly to the observed location. All results of the interview were analyzed using Milles and Hauberman’s pattern. The research found nine forms of moral decadence in college students. They are: i) negligent in worship, ii)sexual promiscuity, iii) involved in drug abuse, iv) hedonism, v) revealing awrah, vi) lack of ethics, vii) impolite speaking , viii) dishonest in academics and ix) lack of time management. The results of this research can be used as initial data for future research investigating simi...
Abstract This study investigated the extent to which moral behaviours of students in tertiary institutions is associated with exposure to social media usage, neighbourhood influence and religiosity using survey design. One thousand six hundred and thirty-four representative sample (Male=867; Female=767) with age range of 18-29 and mean age of 17.04 were drawn through multi-stage technique from a population of tertiary institutions students in South-Western Nigeria. Five research questions guided the study. Variables were assessed with four standardized self-report scales. Result of Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) showed that while neighbourhood and religiosity have positive relationship with moral behaviours, social media usage had inverse relationship. Multivariate Analysis showed that jointly the independent variables accounted for 17% variance on the respondents’ moral behaviours. Religiosity made the most potent contribution ((β = .398; t= 8.706; P<0.05), followed by neighbourhood influence ((β =.167; t= 2.082; P<0.05). Social media usage made no significant contribution to respondents’ moral behaviours. It concluded that counselling psychologists should empower parents with skills to inculcate cherished values and mores on their youths. Moral education should be included in tertiary institutions’ curriculum. Keywords: Moral decadence, social media, neighbourhood, religiosity, tertiary institutions
Moral Decadence a Setback of Moral Education in Nigeria
2018
Moral education is the informed process of inculcating enduring values and virtues that would mould good personality and garden the mind towards good character faces a setback due to moral decadence made manifest in different spheres of life in Nigeria. Moral decadence poses serious challenges to the sustainable growth in moral education due to the lack of moral fiber in the conscience of many Nigerians irrespective of class, religion, socio-economic and political standing in Nigeria. This study is to examine the various ways moral decadence has been a setback to moral education in Nigeria that the study adopted Anomie in examining the causes, effects and possible solutions to the scourge of moral decadence in Nigeria. The research engaged majorly secondary data obtained from documentary sources such as journals, textbooks, magazines, dailies, thesis, dissertations and internet materials. They were complimented by primary methods which include interview and observation methods. They...
Purpose/Aims: This paper investigates the moral misconduct among the students in Nigerian institutions of higher learning. Methodology/Procedures: For the purpose of this study, three research questions were raised. A total of 180 respondents comprising 30 lecturers and 150 students were selected from three randomly sampled higher institutions in Imo State. Data were collected through questionnaire and interview. Thus, data collected were analyzed using simple percentage, frequency counts and multiple regression. Results/Conclusion: The result of the findings showed a number of factors causing moral misconduct among students and the strategies for restoring morality in higher institutions. The result further established the fact that the identified causes of moral misconduct among students contributed to students' poor academic performance. Recommendations such as the need to include moral and religious education as general courses in higher institutions were suggested.
Value reorientation and reviving the social life of our youth in tertiary institution through counselling and moral education is very important at this time that our nation is in a state of series of insurgencies. The decay in the society has affected the values and moral character of our youths in tertiary institutions. This has manifested in many social vices such as cultism, thuggery, examination malpractices among others. This paper focused on value reorientation as strategy for combating moral decadence among students of tertiary institutions in Kwara State. Four research questions were raised to guide the conduct of the study. The study is a survey research and a sample of 600 students randomly selected from four state owned tertiary institutions across Kwara State was selected. Data collected through questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Findings revealed that the type of moral decadence that is mostly exhibited among tertiary institutions are lack of respect for constituted authorities, examination malpractice, indecent dressing amongst others. These moral decadence are the result of lapses from parents, peer influence and societal influence. The effect of moral decadence and strategies for combating it were identified. The study was concluded by recommending among others that counselling, moral education and parents' constant visitation to their children/wards in their institution be encouraged to help in curbing social vices in