Tanzania Standard 7 Curriculum (PSLE) - Civics and Moral Education (Uraia na Maadili)

Chapter 1: Loving Others in the Community

This chapter introduces the concept of helping those in need within the community. It explores identifying different groups in need, understanding their specific needs, and exploring ways to mobilize community support. The chapter emphasizes the importance of empathy, comfort, and providing both material and emotional support. It also discusses strategies for identifying those in need, such as community meetings, religious gatherings, media outreach, and social media platforms.

Chapter 2: Loving and Taking Pride in Your School

This chapter focuses on the student's role in contributing to the development of their school. It encourages students to protect school property, participate in maintaining a clean environment, contribute to school infrastructure projects, and actively participate in school governance by providing feedback and suggestions. The chapter also discusses the importance of academic excellence as a way to enhance the school's reputation. It outlines various school needs, including food, learning materials, infrastructure, and funding, and suggests ways to acquire these resources, such as government grants, parental contributions, community fundraising, and partnerships with development stakeholders.

Chapter 3: Loving and Taking Pride in Your Country

This chapter explores the importance of peace and how to maintain it within the community. It emphasizes obeying laws, protecting national borders, respecting human rights, condemning harmful actions, and fostering positive relationships with other people and nations. The chapter also discusses ways to promote peace, such as through art, sports, social media, peace day celebrations, and religious teachings. It highlights the significance of peace for economic development, resource utilization, unity, and security.

Chapter 4: Caring for Ourselves and Others

This chapter delves into reproductive health education, its importance, and ways to provide it. It also covers fire safety and rescue education within the community. The chapter emphasizes responsible decision-making, avoiding risky behaviors, and building positive life skills. It also discusses the role of various channels in providing reproductive health education, such as classroom instruction, printed materials, performing arts, seminars, religious teachings, and media. The chapter also covers fire safety procedures, equipment, and the importance of community education in preventing and mitigating fire-related disasters.

Chapter 5: Building Positive Relationships with Others

This chapter focuses on building and maintaining positive relationships within the community. It highlights the importance of honesty, transparency, respecting resources, cooperation, showing respect, and volunteering. The chapter also discusses actions that can harm relationships, such as hatred, theft, violence, laziness, and selfishness. It emphasizes the importance of forgiveness, reconciliation, and fulfilling responsibilities.

Chapter 6: Protecting Resources for the Benefit of the Country

This chapter explores the importance of protecting national resources and the negative impact of corruption on resource management. It discusses how corruption can affect development planning, lead to the violation of rights and laws, hinder the provision of social services, and disrupt proper resource utilization procedures. The chapter also highlights the role of non-governmental organizations in protecting resources and providing education against corruption.

Chapter 7: Fulfilling Responsibilities in the Community

This chapter focuses on fulfilling responsibilities within the community through volunteerism. It discusses the student's role in participating in community development activities, such as contributing to school construction, providing community services, protecting the environment, and promoting literacy. The chapter also emphasizes the importance of project-based learning and highlights the resources available to students for fulfilling their community responsibilities, such as time, land, finances, human resources, forests, water sources, and transportation.

Chapter 8: Obeying Laws and Regulations

This chapter emphasizes the importance of obeying laws and regulations, particularly those related to online communication. It introduces the Cybercrimes Act and discusses actions that demonstrate compliance with the law, such as providing accurate information, sharing ethical content, respecting human equality, sending appropriate messages, and maintaining confidentiality. The chapter also discusses ways to avoid cybercrimes and the importance of educating the community about responsible online behavior.

Chapter 9: Developing Tolerance

This chapter focuses on developing tolerance and managing emotions. It discusses the benefits of tolerance, such as building positive relationships, maintaining a positive outlook, making sound decisions, achieving goals, and learning new things. The chapter also explores actions that demonstrate tolerance, such as avoiding conflicts, following proper complaint procedures, practicing patience, seeking and granting forgiveness, and exploring alternative solutions to problems.

Chapter 10: How to Achieve Goals

This chapter explores the importance of setting goals and how to achieve them. It defines goals, differentiates between short-term and long-term goals, and outlines steps for achieving goals, such as identifying key activities, determining necessary resources, selecting implementation strategies, prioritizing tasks, and conducting evaluations. The chapter also discusses the importance of setting goals for motivation, decision-making, time management, self-assessment, and fostering creativity.

Chapter 11: Analyzing Things Critically

This chapter focuses on critical thinking and responsible learning. It defines critical learning as a learning approach that connects learning with real-life situations and emphasizes understanding over memorization. The chapter also discusses the importance of critical and responsible learning for developing analytical skills, fostering creativity, building confidence, and enhancing communication skills.

Chapter 12: Being Trustworthy in the Community

This chapter explores actions that demonstrate trustworthiness in school and the community, such as obeying school rules, showing respect, being honest and transparent, working diligently, and maintaining positive relationships. It also emphasizes the importance of respecting different beliefs and ideologies and outlines proper ways to fulfill responsibilities. The chapter also discusses the importance of participating in school elections and the benefits of student leadership.

Chapter 13: Upholding Human Rights

This chapter discusses the role of the three branches of government (legislative, judicial, and executive) in upholding human rights. It outlines the responsibilities of each branch and the importance of collaboration among them. The chapter also discusses principles that can support the government in upholding human rights, such as good governance, respecting human dignity, and ensuring transparency and truthfulness.

Chapter 14: Building Friendships with Other Nations

This chapter explores the concept of diplomacy and the role of Tanzanian embassies in building relationships with other nations. It discusses the functions of embassies, the importance of having Tanzanian representation in other countries, and the opportunities that arise from diplomatic relations, such as job opportunities, technical assistance, educational opportunities, financial aid, market access, and technological exchange. The chapter also discusses ways to maintain diplomatic relations, such as through commitment, dialogue, collaboration, trust, diplomatic solutions to conflicts, and effective communication.