Moral and value Education in different contexts

Although teaching morals is a common responsibility, schools play the most important role.
This is the reason Sheikh Mohammed has focused on school curricula in the moral education
initiative. He has also expressed the importance of a patriotic upbringing as it provides
students with self-confidence and strength.
According to C. V. Good — ”Value-education is the aggregate of all the process by means of
which a person develops abilities, attitudes and other forms of behavior of the positive
values in the society in which he lives.”

Definition of Moral Education

"Education is an umbrella term loosely used to describe the teaching of children in a manner
that will help them develop variously as moral, civic, good, mannered, behaved, non-
bullying, healthy, critical, successful, traditional, compliant or socially acceptable beings."

Explanation
Moral education is based two quite different tasks and approaches.

I. Socialization
II. Judgement

The first, which might better be called moral “socialization” or “training,” is the task of
nurturing in children those virtues and values that make them good people.
Of course, good people can make bad judgments; it's often not easy to know what is morally
right.
The second task of moral education is to provide students with the intellectual resources
that enable them to make informed and responsible judgments about difficult matters of
moral importance. Both are proper and important tasks of schools—and both cut across the
curriculum.
it is uncontroversial to say that schooling is unavoidably a moral enterprise. Indeed, schools
teach morality in a number of ways, both implicit and explicit.

Role of Curriculum
The overall shape of the curriculum is morally loaded by virtue of what it requires, what it
makes available as electives, and what it ignores. For example, for more than a century (but
especially since A Nation at Risk and the reform reports of the 1980s), there has been a
powerful movement to make schooling and the curriculum serve economic purposes.
Religion and art, by contrast, have been largely ignored (and are not even elective
possibilities in many schools). As a result, schooling encourages a rather more materialistic
and less spiritual culture—a matter of some moral significance.

Role of parents
Every young parent should be very attentive toward their children’s requirement of moral
education. Childhood is the most vulnerable period which impacts the overall development
of an individual’s personality. As a parent be attentive about what your kid is learning and
from where. As a parent, you need to be careful about the peer and friends your child might
have and take time out to make them understand what’s right and wrong.

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Role of society
Children are the foundation of our society the torchbearers of our nation. As a teacher and
an influencer, one must take care of the moral training and basic qualities that are conferred
on the children. It will eventually affect the fate of the country as a whole. Moral education
is a must to be executed as understudies in school and universities.

Role of Counselling
Every time a child is caught lying or gets out of hand, necessary counselling has to be given
to them. It is important to treat them as an equal and show trust and faith in them and
make them confident to take their own calls. They should always be taught that it might be
difficult, to tell the truth, but it is always essential to tell the truth. Stories and examples
must be shared with them so that they have more clarity of thought. Give them time and
treat them with patience at all times.

Role of Activities and legends

It is important to educate children about the phenomenal activists and legends who
exemplifies strength and has shown character to fight against all odds and champion the
right causes to bring revolutionary changes. These reformers and prophets should be the
role models that the youth should follow and look up to. Assist your children to find a cause
worth working for, make them contribute to voluntary services and helping the needy.
When they start these as a habit from childhood, they can take it forward in their lives. Each
child can make a significant contribution in their own way.

Role of Punishment
It is also important to tell your children the severity of the punishment one might get
committing crimes and serious offenses. They must be clear on what is right and wrong. Be a
mentor than a parent and talk to your child as a friend, it would be a smoother process for
them to learn. Share your past mistakes, its consequences and what you learned from it. Do
not discourage their adventurous spirit but teach them to balance it between an adventure
and a misadventure.

Conclusion
It is often claimed that values are caught rather than taught;
Moral education is basically a training which shows us the right and just way to lead our
lives. Being honest, just, legitimate, accommodative, generous, to share love and care, show
consideration and sensitivity are basic principles of moral education. It is more of a practice
which enriches the way of our lifestyle approaches to values and morality embodied in self-
esteem, community service, civic education, sex education, drug education, Holocaust
education, multicultural education, values clarification, and character education programs—
to name but a few.

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