A conceptual study of social responsibility awareness and practices among school children
List of Authors
  • Mustaffa Zain , Nur Farhana Suffari

Keyword
  • Social responsibility awareness, respectfulness, school children

Abstract
  • In general, social responsibility is an important aspect which requires the responsible bodies to disclose both mandatory and voluntary corporate and social information to the public or stakeholders. These information disclosures are essential in assisting the organizations to make a better decision. Social responsibility in education is an indicator to examine the level of social responsibility practices among students toward moral and responsibility aspects. This study focuses on the element of moral values consist of respectfulness, cleanliness and thriftiness with the level of social responsibility practices among school children. Specifically, it intends to firstly examine and confirm the existence of moral values element in current curriculum syllabus secondly, to determine the association between these three moral values to the level of social responsibility awareness and practices among school children. The data will be collected through observations on school children from six schools and on top of that 120 questionnaires will be distributed. Various statistical analyses will be conducted to examine the relationship between the elements of respectfulness, cleanliness and thriftiness with the level of social responsibility practices.

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