Arab Educational Information Network

The purpose of this paper is to look at thoughts on moral education by educational experts in the UAE; the reason behind that why schools need to concentrate on students' moral development. The role of the teachers in the UAE is to guide their students for moral and ethics concepts. The point of views and opinions of the educational experts reveal that moral education should be an important concept of school life. The moral curriculum that implemented in public and private schools in the United Arab Emirates has been developed with great care through cooperation with a group of experts and specialists in the academic and social fields from a country; these efforts have resulted in an advanced curriculum based on learning styles. Modern, interactive and beyond classroom boundaries to include informal, innovative learning. Hence, the moral curriculum must be emphasized on moral development which is closely connected to character education and schools should not neglect their students' moral development. (Published abstract)