An Exploration of Teachers ’ Attitude towards Life Skills Education: A Case Study of Secondary Schools in Thika West

The purpose of this study was to explore the attitude of teachers towards teaching life skills education as a way of developing the practice of morality through secondary schools in Kenya. To achieve this the researchers used researcher objectives with the aim of establishing the extent to which life skills education was being taught in secondary school, how life skills education training had equipped teacher to teach it in schools and to identify challenges teachers were facing in implementing life skills education. In addition to recommend measures to be undertaken to improve practice of morality in secondary schools.The researchers sampled 12 public secondary schools which constitute 30 % of all public secondary schools Thika West District. Four mixed secondary school, four girls boarding secondary schools and four boys boarding secondary schools. The target population was the head teachers and teachers. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample teachers and a total number of 60 respondents were sampled.Data for the study was collected using questionnaires which had both open and closed question.The data collected was then analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative techniques. The research findings revealed that majority of secondary schools in Thika West District were offering life skills education butallocating a single lesson in a week.This implied that very little time was spent on it and thus the coverage wasvery little.The conclusion was thatthe learners are not well prepared and equipped with psychosocia