Factors Responsible for Indiscipline Among Secondary School Students

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FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR INDISCIPLINE AMONG

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ABSTRACT

This project is the factors responsible for indiscipline among

secondary school students in Ovia North East Local Government

Area of Edo State was carried out in five schools in this very

local government mentioned above. It deals mainly with the

factors responsible for indiscipline among students. The project

also contains the sample areas and that of sample subjects.

Research instrument and procedure and the methods of data

collections were through questionnaires which the students and

teachers of the selected sampled areas were sampled.

Furthermore, the analysis of the data of the information

gathered during the research investigation and also on

presentation of findings which are as follows was also stated

which include; home background as one of the factors

responsible for indiscipline among students in Ovia North East

Local Government Area of Edo State, administration, lack of

teaching aids, and wealth of parents contribute to indiscipline

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among students in secondary school in the Local Government

Area of study. All these factors had almost paralyzed

educational development in this Local Government Area.

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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

It is an accepted fact that children learned reflective, that

is their moral conscience in works and that they waver in their

obligation and attitude when they obey instructions. It is either

because they have not the least doubt as to the importance of

the command they have received or that they fear being

reprimanded or punished for such disobedience. Adeyemi

(1978) said that indiscipline is a behaviour among students who

are maturing, seeking independence and looking for recognition

as individuals. It may manifest itself in stealing, fighting

resistance of authority, vandalism, shop lifting and truancy,

noise making, examination malpractice etc.

We are aware that growth in crime, especially robbing with

violence. Children delinquency and nation are all problems

associated with indiscipline. There is a steady growth of

vandalism in our schools and even at home. It is now

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fashionable in the country for school children to engage in all

forms of indiscipline. All learning contains a measure of

discipline the students is a learner and he is only too part of the

community in which he lives (home and in the school). From the

time a child first enters school and until he leaves it, his

behaviour to a large extent is influenced by the growth change

going on in his body. The child now needs to be guided or what

he should do by parents, teachers and school authorities

concerned.

Indiscipline among students in schools makes teaching

uninteresting, especially when some children misbehave in

schools. Teachers find it very hard to punish the children so as

to deter them from such behaviour. Most of the problems

people experience in their homes, at school and in the society

as a whole arise from lack of self discipline or self control. On

many occasions, nowadays the students will refuse to obey

their teachers. It is my duty to identify factors responsible for

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indiscipline among students in secondary schools in Ovia North

East Local Government Area of Edo State.

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

The problems of indiscipline among secondary school

students in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State

in particular and Edo State at large is alarming. The back down

in interpersonal relationship or in the observation of rules leads

to disorder. Indiscipline among students may manifest in

stealing, fighting, staying away from school, defiance of

authority, vandalism, shop lifting and refusal to go to school.

There are expression of defiance and resentment which disrupts

normal school progress. Other problems that confront

educational institutions are school dropout because of failure in

school subjects. This unruly behaviour might be due to poor

home background, peer group influence, mass media, drugs

and maladministration on the part of the school authority.

With indiscipline among students in school in Ovia North

East Local Government Area of Edo State, teachers do not have

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enough time for teaching and learning. This is a matter of

concern. Besides, if not checked, students may graduate into

audit criminals.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The major objective or purpose of this study is to find out

1. The incidence of indiscipline among secondary schools in

Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.

2. Effects of indiscipline on children, teachers, parents, school

administrations and the society.

3. Useful suggestions on how to tackle the problem of

indiscipline in secondary schools.

4. The indiscipline among secondary school students could

cause low academic performance of students in schools.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

The following research questions guide the researcher’s

investigation.

1. What are the factors responsible for indiscipline among

students?

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2. What are the effects of indiscipline among students in our

educational system?

3. What measures have been taken to check alarming factors

responsible for indiscipline among secondary schools in

Nigeria?

4. Has the measures taken been successful, if not, why?

5. To what extent do the students is been disciplined?

SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY

The study will be useful to students, parents, teachers,

school administrations and the community at large. Discipline in

school will help in the following ways:

1. Creating an atmosphere of peace and harmony among

students.

2. Helping to develop sound and healthy mind which would

have been otherwise destroyed.

3. Helping the nation to conserve resource, which would have

been lost through willful distraction of properties and

arson.

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4. Enabling students to respect their parents, teachers and

elders which is a necessary recipe for good and social

development.

5. Fastening obedience thereby making people become law

abiding and patriotic.

6. Pursuing grievances through constitutional means instead

of resorting to nothing.

This study will be of great benefit in the following areas by:

Improving discipline among students in school finding out

ways to stop indiscipline among students in secondary schools

in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.

Improving the quality of school administration in secondary

schools in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.

SCOPE AND LIMITATION

The study is limited to five selected secondary schools in

Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. The

schools are

1. Iguedaiken Secondary School

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2. Ezomo College

3. Evboneka Boys Model Secondary School

4. NIFOR Secondary School

5. Army Day Secondary School

A great number of limiting factors were experienced in the

course of carrying out the research, they include financial

constraints and the study.

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DEFINITION OF TERMS

The following arte terms which have been used in this

study and the following.

Discipline: Apply discipline to train, control the mind and

character.

Controversy: Prolonged argument.

Questionnaire: An instrument used in gathering information

containing questions.

Ignorance: Not having the knowledge of something.

Deceit: Dishonest behaviour that is intended to make

somebody believe something.

Arson: Act of willful destruction of things.

Obsured: out of bormong opposition to reasons.

Piety: Devotion to God and good work.

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