The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the 2019 Religious and Moral Education Syllabus for Primary schools. The Syllabus is scheduled to take effect from September 2019.
The rationale for this syllabus was stated as :
“The issue of morality and religion has engaged human attention over the centuries. This is because of their effects on the co-existence of human beings with one another and the world they live in and ideas concerning their relationship with forces beyond the known world.
‘Religious and Moral Education’ is a vital and indispensable part of human growth and development in the Ghanaian society. The subject reinforces the informal religious and moral training young people acquire from their homes and communities.
The nation is confronted with major moral issues including corruption, poor attitude to the environment and uncritical following of certain foreign values and cultures. Education must make learners aware of the dangers these pose to themselves as individuals and the nation as a whole and make them to acquire values and attitudes that would address these challenges.
Many homes and communities may be unable to provide this type of training adequately due to demands of modern environment. It therefore becomes the
task of the school to provide this type of education in order to help learners to become morally responsible and patriotic citizens.
Furthermore, the spread of education across all sectors of the Ghanaian society, and the changes in the way of life of people as a result of education,
population growth, and contacts with the outside world, tend to introduce all manner of both positive and negative influences.
In general, young people readily and unconsciously assimilate all types of influences (good or bad), if they do not have proper guidance. It is therefore important that society provides them with a type of education that will make them acquire sound religious and moral principles; and also develop appropriate attitudes and values that will help them to make good choices and decisions in their adulthood for the good society”.
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