Teachers’ Perception of Causes and Strategies for Combating Moral Decadence among Secondary School Students in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated teacher’s perception, causes and strategies for combating moral decadence among secondary schools students in Ilorin. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design.  The population of the study comprised all the Christian Religious Studies (CRS) teachers in senior secondary schools in Ilorin. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 135 CRS teachers in Ilorin. Researcher- designed questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents with reliability coefficient of 0.81. Data obtained were analysed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation. Findings obtained from the study revealed that cultism, drug abuse truancy, examination malpractice were some of the moral decadence common among secondary school students. The causes were identified and strategies of combating them were proffered. The study recommended that parents should be up and doing in the discharge of their duties and moral education should be emphasised in schools.