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