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Teachers’ disciplinary approaches to students’ discipline problems in Nigerian Secondary Schools

E. D. Nakpodia

Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. E-mail: edwardnakpodia@yahoo.com. Tel: 08033862036

Accepted 25 May, 2010

   Introduction

This paper dealt with teachers’ disciplinary approaches on students’ indiscipline in Nigerian secondary schools. Disciplinary power of teachers’ is proved by the very fact of its exercise; and it is an organic necessity in every society whose members it guides to their end by providing them with rules of action. Students discipline problem had so existed and disciplinary methods employed have changed over the years. This study therefore explored teachers’ views about approaches to discipline problems in Nigerian schools such as corporal punishment, suspension and expulsion; and civil rights issue because the increasing wave of misconduct and its resultant effect has shown that discipline has become a major problem of educational management. Based on the premise that discipline approaches are conceptualized, the paper highlighted that students’ discipline problems have grown into an epidemic in Nigerian secondary schools.

Key words: Teachers’ disciplinary approaches, students’ indiscipline, Nigerian schools.