Educators’ perspective on the innovation of Moral education textbooks for the development of future society

Abstract

Moral Education is a core subject in the education system in Malaysia. Textbooks are published when the new curriculum is implemented consistently from the Integrated Secondary School Curriculum (KBSM) era until now in Standard Based Curriculum for Secondary Schools (KSSM) era. In order to ensure a quality KSSM Moral Education learning and teaching process, the content of the textbook should have a positive impact. The study using a qualitative approach was used to refine some necessary improvement suggestions from the aspect of moral development theory, the aspect of 21st century learning and the aspect of higher order thinking skills (HOTS). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight Moral Education teachers who teach in national secondary schools. The findings of the study suggesting new strategy by introducing theory-based content using five moral development theories as a part of moral education content, three suggestions for improvement in the pedagogical aspect of 21st century learning and five suggestions for improvement in the evaluation aspect through higher order thinking skills (HOTS). This proposal offers a positive paradigm not only to the main elements of the curriculum, namely content elements, pedagogical elements and holistic assessment elements but generally to face the challenges in Moral Education for our future society.