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Religion is the main component of the Pakistani Education system. It is important to understand the role of schooling in religious socialization of the students. The study aimed to compare the role of public and private schooling in religious socialization of secondary school students. Quantitative research design was followed to achieve the objectives. Researchers developed a 36 items questionnaire to collect data from secondary school students enrolled in public and private secondary schools. The questionnaire consisted of 6 factors including curriculum, teacher, co-curricular activities, school management, class fellows and parents-teacher interaction. The share of the participants was equal for male, female and rural, urban students. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results showed that public and private secondary schools played an important role in promoting religious socialization among students. However, there was a significant difference in the perceptions of male and female secondary school students about their religious socialization at schools.

Religious socialization is an important debate in the field of social sciences and education psychology. Religion is an integral part of Pakistani society because Pakistan is an idealistic state. Therefore, it is important to study the factors that promote religious socialization among secondary school students. It gave clear dimensions about the emerging social trends in religious societies. This study aimed to critically analyze the factors promoting religious socialization and compare them. These factors include family, peers, school, government, religious places, mass media, and social media. For this analysis, a quantitative approach was used with a descriptive research design. The review of the related literature enables researchers to develop a questionnaire comprising 38 items. The population for the study was from secondary schools of district Jhang. The study consisted of 600 respondents from different schools with an equal ratio of male and female schools as well as rural and urban schools. The percentages were collected, tabulated, and compared. Results suggested that family was the most significant agent that promoted religious socialization among students at secondary schools. The independent sample t-test was used to compare the school and gender-wise religious socialization at secondary schools. The results of the present study show that there are many factors that play an important role in promoting religious socialization among students at secondary schools.