Abstract:
This study was to critically examine indiscipline among Senior High School (SHS)
students in Mim; and create awareness on how to reduce indiscipline acts among
students in the SHS. The study employed a disruptive survey design. The study
comprised 20 students, 20 class teachers and 20 parents who were selected using the
simple random sampling technique for the study. The data was collected using
questionnaire. Frequency tables and percentages were used to analyse the data. The
study indicated that most student disciplinary problems experienced were due to bad
peer influence, stealing, lateness to school, absenteeism, and mobile phones.
Additionally, the study indicated that indiscipline cases in Mim Senior School in
Asunafo North Municipal were fuelled by inadequate guidance and counselling, less
involvement of students in co-curricular activities, and indifference to Life Skills
Education by both the teachers and students. The study concluded that in order to curb
indiscipline in secondary schools, positive approaches need to be implemented fully,
since such measures are most likely to yield much better results than the traditional
scheme of discipline. The study recommended that school administrations should
establish guidance and counselling department and put in place intensive parent –
mentoring programs which aim at sensitizing parents on their parental duties
Description:
A dissertation in the Department of Educational Foundations,
Faculty of Educational Studies, submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies, in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Post Graduate Diploma
(Education)
in the University of Education, Winneba
OCTOBER, 2021