ABSTRACT
The aim of the study is to find out some of the courses of indiscipline among secondary school students in some selected schools in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State.
Eight schools were selected and 100 respondents both male and female were randomly chosen as sample for the work. The research design was descriptive survey. The instrument of the study was Questionnaire.
It was discovered among others, that home background, school environment and leadership style, teacher’s attitude to work and other societal variable were considered by the respondents to be responsible for indiscipline in our secondary schools.
In view of the findings, there is need to enforce rules and regulations create link between the school and the home, and establish functional guidance and counselling that can help students in schools.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE i
CERTIFICATION ii
DEDICATION iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv
ABSTRACT vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 5
Purpose of the Study 5
Research Questions 6
Significance of the Study 7
Scope and Delimitation of the Study 8
Operational Definition of the Terms 9
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
Introduction 10
The Concept of Indiscipline 10
Causes of Indiscipline 14
Techniques of handling Indiscipline 22
Appraisal of the Literature Review 25
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Design 27
Population 27
Sample and Sampling Technique 27
Instrumentation 28
Validity of the Instrument 31
Reliability of the Instrument 32
Administration of the Instrument 33
Data Analysis 34
CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Introduction 35
Hypothesis Testing 35
Discussion of Results 43
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary 45
Conclusion 46
Recommendations 48
References 51
Appendix 53
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study
The parents’ problem of indiscipline
has a very long history. It dates back to the time immemorial. In the fifteenth
century, Socrates talked about how children contradicted their parents order
and tyrannized over their teacher. The issue of indiscipline within Nigeria
taxed the mind of well-meaning Nigerians. There is a great concern by parents,
teachers, voluntary agencies, government, and religious organizations e.t.c.
Over the issue of “indiscipline” which has eaten deep into the minds of
Nigerians.
The
problem of indiscipline in Nigeria has its origin at the periods of
colonialism. Several acts of indiscipline exhibited by the colonial agents such
as exploitation, humiliation and various political, social, cultural and
economic atrocities were later inherited to form an integral part of Nigerian
behavioural pattern.
After
independence, therefore, Nigeria in their daily life started to imitate these
colonial agents. Fellow Nigerians that took over power from the colonial masters
started to exhibit these unfortunate colonial heritages on their fellow
Nigerians and are even more atrocious than their colonial masters. Gross and
down right acts of indiscipline displayed by the politicians was given as one
of the reasons for the military intervention in Nigeria politics in 1966.
The
present and old Nigeria National Anthems specifically centered on individual
liberties. It clearly identified a way of life in which the central value is
the individual himself, his concerns and actions, his consent, his happiness,
his life. The anthem sees the government as the servant of individual purposes.
But the spirit of our National Anthem is more than a declaration of individual
supremacy. It is also an expression of faith in the concern of free man for the
public welfare. For a free society must rely heavily, if its value are to be
defended and realized, on the voluntary actions of its citizens.
However,
the aims and objectives of the national anthems have now been shunned by the
Nigeria society. Right from the year of independence, Nigerian society is full
of different vices. There are mismanagement, abuse of office, corruption,
inflation, chaotic economic planning, political crises, selfishness and social
vices. The ruling class and civil servants demonstrated unbridled lust for
material acquisition. In the process most of them resorted to what could be
described as white collar crimes. They colluded with business men and
contractors to deplete the nation’s coffers.
The
parent problems of indiscipline in educational institutions in Nigeria have
been with us for some times now. Indiscipline is present from primary through
university levels. The average educational institutions in Nigeria society is
by and large not in anyway discipline.
The
school is a social organization and as such it has got its established patterns
of behaviour expected from its members. These are expressed in the form of
rules and regulations which govern the official actions of the principal,
teachers, students and other group of personnel that work in it. Some of these
rules and regulations especially those affecting the conduct of the teachers
are prescribed, imposed and enforced by the educational providers. But these
affecting the students’ body, are generally prescribed, imposed and enforced by
the teachers and students themselves but taking cognitive of those rules and
regulations externally determined for the smooth-running of the institution.
The externally prescribed rules and regulations are normally given by the state
ministry of education or any of its recognized agencies like the Teaching
Service Commission.
The
school, today, like many social organization faces serious problem of its
members not conforming to the standard of behaviour expected of them. The problem
of indiscipline as rampant as it is has spilled into Nigeria schools and this
has been given parents, teachers, school administrators and educational
providers a serious concern. It is in the light of this that the present study
is carried out.
Statement of the Problem
PROBLEMS OF INDISCIPLINE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE
