Moral Education (Singapore Context)
Should changes be made to the local education system(Singapore Context) to enhance the teaching of moral values?
When most people talk about school curriculum in the Singapore`s context, they think about math, science, social studies and language courses. Seldom do I hear or read about moral values as being part of the curriculum. The problem is that the neglect of teaching moral values in schools is harming our students and causing problems in our society. If one has never learned any moral values, how is she or he being able to discern the difference between right and wrong? That is basically the essence of moral values education. During the recent years, the Singapore government has noticed the character development of Singaporeans reached nadir. The situation is so bad that the government has to put up signs in public transportation to remind its citizens to be benevolent to the seniors. At such, changes have to be made to our local education system to enhance the teaching of moral values before the situation deteriorate further.
Our Singapore government did attempt to implement policies to inculcate moral values via languages; one of such policy is the Policy of Bilingualism. This policy state that all Singaporean students studying in local government primary and secondary education institutions are required to learn their own Mother Tongue as second language latter to English. It aimed to educate students with their mother tongues so that they can learn about their culture, identify with their ethnic roots, and to preserve cultural traits and Asian values. However, as the secondary languages is also graded as one of the subjects, and students often take it too academic wise and neglected the true purpose of their mother tongues; rendering the policy to redundancy. Thus, it is undeniable that the failure of Singapore government`s policies to inculcate moral values to Singaporeans has resulted to the Singapore of today.
Primary and Secondary
When most people talk about school curriculum in the Singapore`s context, they think about math, science, social studies and language courses. Seldom do I hear or read about moral values as being part of the curriculum. The problem is that the neglect of teaching moral values in schools is harming our students and causing problems in our society. If one has never learned any moral values, how is she or he being able to discern the difference between right and wrong? That is basically the essence of moral values education. During the recent years, the Singapore government has noticed the character development of Singaporeans reached nadir. The situation is so bad that the government has to put up signs in public transportation to remind its citizens to be benevolent to the seniors. At such, changes have to be made to our local education system to enhance the teaching of moral values before the situation deteriorate further.
Our Singapore government did attempt to implement policies to inculcate moral values via languages; one of such policy is the Policy of Bilingualism. This policy state that all Singaporean students studying in local government primary and secondary education institutions are required to learn their own Mother Tongue as second language latter to English. It aimed to educate students with their mother tongues so that they can learn about their culture, identify with their ethnic roots, and to preserve cultural traits and Asian values. However, as the secondary languages is also graded as one of the subjects, and students often take it too academic wise and neglected the true purpose of their mother tongues; rendering the policy to redundancy. Thus, it is undeniable that the failure of Singapore government`s policies to inculcate moral values to Singaporeans has resulted to the Singapore of today.
Primary and Secondary