Case Study 2.5.3

Case Study 2.5.3

Read the case given below and answer the questions that follow. Record you responses in your personal journal and discuss them during your group discussions.

 In a study titled ‘Re-Engineering Values Education in Nigerian Schools as Catalyst for National Development’, Enu and Esu decry the decay in the Nigerian society that has affected the standard of values and moral character formation. They posit that this has manifested in so many anti-social vices. Anti-social behavior exhibited include corruption, dishonesty, greed, violent crimes, lack of accountability, indiscipline, disrespect to constituted authorities, laziness, low moral courage among many others. All these have constituted a serious moral problem for the Nigerian State and have constrained all sincere efforts targeted at achieving national development. In their study they reviewed the weak values system in Nigeria and strongly recommend the re-reengineering of values education in Nigerian schools as catalyst for national development. They recommend that the pursuit of national development is first attitudinal and so the citizenry should be given new orientation that goes to ensure the overhauling and reconstruction of the total values system in the society for obvious national development to be guaranteed. They have advocated as a matter of necessity the development and introduction of a national policy on values education as a references instrument which will be used as a realistic paradigm for behavioral transformation and ethical reorientation. They see this as one sure way of attaining national development.

          i.            Discuss, with colleagues, how re-engineering features in this study.

       ii.            Discuss how re-engineering could be used to improve the performance of the education sector.