Examining moral values in the policy document and in the contents of moral texts: An overview

Abstract

This article aimed to scrutinize moral values in the contents of moral texts and in the policy document. Having this aim, the researcher used document analysis (policy documents and moral textbooks). The education system has missed the chief aim of education which is the formation of character achieved through moral education. The blind reliance on Western education costs us much and the moral matters have been weakened by Western education which has controlled our youth’s thinking. Although holistic human personality requires virtues like rational thinking, and preserving one’s cultural values and moral principles, these traits have not been central to the objectives of education and this has immense implications for the behavior of students. The recently introduced moral textbooks were far from dealing with the valid contents of moral issues. To heal our education system, there is a need to rethink the objectives of education of the country and prepare appropriate moral texts for the renewal of the eroded Ethiopian moral values.