Social science is the field of studies largely concerned with the investigation on humans and the consequences of social actions and inactions. The scope of social science conceived the studies and the activities of all social institutions and strata such as the education system, socio-religious and the economic and political beings of the societies. The present curriculum content of social science in the universities of northern Nigeria has often disregarded the rudimental subjects of Islamic ethics and morality for training Muslim students. The secular mode of curriculum used in the Muslim universities have resulted to various social vices, example of which are insurgency, corruptions in different forms, economic fall and low learning outcomes and productivity. Therefore, the present descriptive study aims at describing the existing content of social science curriculum and presents a comprehensive justification on why such content should be enriched with the subjects of Islamic ethics for training in the universities of Northern Nigeria. Open-ended questionnaire is employed as a means for data collection and analysis in the present enquiry. Atlas ti-software of qualitative data analysis is also applied in the process of coding themes and sub-themes guiding the answers to the stated objective. The findings of the study indicate that the current state of social science curriculum content is ineffective and incomplete because it lacks the religious thought that can promote character and commendable actions in the Muslim societies. The study outcome also attests to the failure of non-integration the knowledge of Islamic ethics into conventional study of accounting, economic, sociology as the main factor that challenged the attainment level of Muslim-students in the universities of Northern Nigeria. The findings depict that integrating the existing western model content of social science with the relevant subjects of Islamic ethics will enhance the quality of training and student’s moral conducts in all universities where Muslims are the target recipients of knowledge.
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To Cite this Article: Abubakar, T. A., & Abdullah, A. H. (2018). Justification of the Fusion of Islamic Ethics into Curriculum Content of Social Science for Universities of Northern Nigeria. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(4), 714–725.
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