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Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol.7, No.8

Publication Date: August 25, 2020

DOI:10.14738/assrj.77.8785.

Annobil, C. N., Annan, A., & Quansah, S. D. (2020). Parental Support Towards Quality Religious and Moral Education Delivery at Primary

School Level. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 7(8) 263-277.

Parental Support Towards Quality Religious and Moral Education

Delivery at Primary School Level

Charles Nyarko Annobil (PhD)

Dept of Basic Education, Faculty Educational Studies,

University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.

Annan, Abraham (PhD)

Department of Social Sciences,

OLA College of Education, Cape Coast, Ghana

Samuel Douglas Quansah (Mr)

Department of Social Sciences,

Accra College of Education, Accra, Ghana.

ABSTRACT

The nature and functions of the school reflect the demands and

expectations of the larger society including parents. The objective of this

sequential explanatory mixed method design study was to obtain the

views of RME teachers and headteachers regarding how parents (of

primary school pupils) were influencing quality delivery of Religious

and Moral Education (RME) in Cape Coast, Ghana. Data were sought from

264 RME teachers and 15 headteachers through questionnaire,

interview and lesson observation. The instruments were pre-tested and

validated to obtain high degree of reliability and dependability. The

questionnaire data obtained reliability co-efficient value of r =. 845, the

observation data obtained Cohen’s Kappa value of .765 (k = .765, p <

.000) and the interview data were duly validated to ensure interview

trustworthiness. Frequencies, percentages, charts, tables, means and

standard deviations were used to analyze the research questions while

inferential statistics (multiple regression) was used to analyze the

quantitative data. The research questions were discussed based on

quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data collected. The variable

(parent support) correlated averagely with r = 0.433, p = .000 with the

teaching of RME at 5% significance level (α = .05); indicating that

parental support has significant effect on quality delivery of RME

(Teaching of RME) in the metropolis. Upon the findings it was

recommended to parents to collaborate with RME teachers to ensure

adequate provision of basic resources that can facilitate dispassionate

and objective teaching and learning of RME.

Keywords: Curriculum, implementation, religious and moral education,

parental influence, parental involvement, parental attitudes, character

education, moral behaviour, parent-teacher relationship