DEVISING PRODUCTIVE MEASURES FOR CURBING INDISCIPLINE IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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2019-12
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Department of Educational Management,Faculty of Education, University of Portharcourt, Nigeria
Abstract
Act of indiscipline among secondary school students in Nigeria has become
unbearable and this ranges from lateness to school, bullying, drug abuse, cultism to
mention but a few. This menace no doubt, has been affecting the realization of school
goals. This paper x-rayed the curbing of the act of indiscipline among secondary
school students. The current measures being taken to curb the menace, the loopholes
in the current measures, the productive measures to be taken and the most productive
of those measured were all looked into. Four research questions raised and interview
was employed as the instrument to collect data. Purpose sampling technique was used
to select all the 334 secondary school principals who served as respondents. The
findings revealed that counseling and parental involvement were the current
measures of curbing indiscipline in secondary school. It also revealed that parent
negative reaction to students’ discipline was the major loophole in the current
measures of curbing indiscipline, while counseling was discovered to be the most
productive measures of curbing indiscipline. It was therefore concluded that
counseling and parental involvement were the productive measures of curbing
indiscipline in Nigerian secondary schools. Recommendations were made among
others that the current measure of curbing indiscipline be sustained while parent
should change their negative attitude toward curbing indiscipline
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Devising, Productive, Measure, Indiscipline