Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate pupil‘s non-compliant behaviour and
management practices employed by Kindergarten teachers in public KGs in the
Jomoro Municipality. The study looked at the forms, effects and the management
practices of non-compliance behaviour. The target population of this study comprised
public school Kindergarten teachers in the Jomoro Municipality. The study adopted
explanatory sequential mixed method design. Data was gathered through a semistructured
interview guide and questionnaire. The stratified random sampling
technique was used to select 25 schools. Simple random sampling was used to select
100 respondents to respond to the questionnaire. Purposive sampling was used to
sample 20 respondents for the qualitative phase. Questionnaire and semi-structured
interview were used in data collection. Quantitative data was analysed using mean
and standard deviation. Qualitative data was analysed thematically using Atlas.ti
software. It emerged from the data that, the forms of non-compliance behaviour were
related to off task behaviour and destruction of properties. Also, it emerged from the
study that the factors that accounted for non-compliant behaviour were environmental
and parental lifestyle. The effects of children‘s non-compliant behaviour were related
to threat to effective teaching and learning and violent behaviour. The management
practices employed were related to visual and verbal cues, reward and punishment.
Among others, the study recommended that, the Jomoro Educational Directorate and
the head teachers from the schools should organize programmes in collaboration with
the early childhood unit on how to cope and improve on non-compliant behaviour to
ease the burden of parents and teachers
Description:
A thesis in the Department of Early Childhood Education,
Faculty of Educational Studies, submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Philosophy
(Early Childhood Education)
in the University of Education, Winneba
JANUARY, 2020
