Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to delve deeper into the context of morality and religion as aspects of school curriculum. Moral and religious education starts from every child’s home. Nonetheless, school is a crucial agency to foster the learnings about ethics of right or wrong doing and perpetuating the religious values among its students. Thus, the kind of moral and religious education is provided to the students serve as a strong yardstick behind creating a framework in their minds for the budding intentions, attitudes, and actions towards others and their environment. Therefore, this paper has been conceived on a panorama of exploration and critical analysis of the ongoing practices of moral and religious practices in the schools. To achieve this aim, a qualitative methodology was chosen in which data has been collected through three sample schools. Under these schools, the selected samples included 30 students and 5 teachers in total. The findings reveal that practices such as creating compartmentalized subjects and exams for imparting moral & religious education are a burden on students and are perpetuating the school’s ideology through religious education. This may lead to a hatred among students for the peers and people of other religion. Thus, through this paper many measures such as integration rather than indoctrination of values, respecting all other religions, igniting critical minds rather than docile bodies, etc. have been suggested for the stakeholders of education to ponder over such critical issues of education.

[1] Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Educational Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia