INDISCIPLINE AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILDREN’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
ABSTRACT
This research work aims to explore indiscipline and its effects on children’s academic performance in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State. It also seeks to investigate the effects of indiscipline and its control. A total sample size of hundred (100) respondents were used for the research work, questionnaires were used to collect data for the study with respect to indiscipline and its effects on children’s academic performance. This study therefore recommends that there should be constant communication between the schools and parents of the pupils and inclusion of moral and religious training when planning curriculum.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
As discipline is a habit of good behaviour generally acceptable or accepted by the standard of norms and values of the society, this should be a behaviour portrayed by a normal human being. On the other hand, indiscipline is the lack of good behaviour that is not generally accepted in a particular society. Edem (1982) states that indiscipline is the violation of school rules and regulations which is capable of obstructing the smooth and orderly functioning of the school system
Indiscipline is the inability of pupils to give respect to authorities, observe and obey school rules and regulations.
There are various attitudes of indiscipline portrayed by pupils in schools, such behaviours include: disobedience to school authorities, vandalizing school properties, lateness to school, rudeness to the teachers and bullying of teachers and fellow pupils.
Indiscipline has been seen as the direct opposite of discipline which is the cultivation of bad habit or immoral behaviour that reflects and becomes a threat or harm to the peers, parents, teachers and other educational administrators which can lead to unrest or chaos.
These deviant and unaccepted attitudes have no doubt turned cankerworm that has eaten deep into the generation that ought to be protected and preserved for better and greater future.
On a general note, indiscipline has been attributed majorly to the nature of a particular pupil and how he/she relates with others either in the school or in the society at large. This act of indiscipline has been a delinquent character whereby when a pupil misbehaves, it means that such pupil is not maintaining the rules and regulations of his/her school.
Many factors are responsible for the act of indiscipline. Examples are: peer group influence, heredity, broken homes or divorced parents, school life, environmental factor, parents’ non-challant attitudes towards their children among others and so on. This unwanted and unaccepted behaviour can be limited, avoided or eradicated if parent teacher association (P.T.A) meeting holds regularly during which parents will be enlightened on how well to handle their wards and not leave all the training to teachers alone.
