Christian Religious Studies Curriculum in Secondary School: Its Implication for Spiritual and Moral Development
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2019-01
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Nigerian Journal of Educational Foundations
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Education is regarded as an instrument for effecting social. economic, political and intellectual development of the individual curriculum remains a tool for the achievement of this purpose. Christian Religious Studies (CRS) curriculum is included in the school not only as a school teaching subject lout as a means of fostering the religious, spiritual and moral development of the students. This paper therefore examined the objectives of CRS curriculum in the school curriculum and the teaching of CRS in Nigerian senior secondary schools. It argues that the teaching of CRS is to develop the cognitive skills. learning to think and develop emotional maturity through motivation of high sense of morality, a sense of self identity and to relate with others harmoniously. The paper also look at the significance of teaching CRS in order to bring about spiritual and moral development of the students so that they can be worthy both in character and learning arid at the end be good ambassadors to their families and the nation at large.
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Curriculum, Objectives, Christian Religious Studies