Educational Administration and Management

6

Discipline

After reading this chapter, you will be conversant with:

• Meaning of Discipline

Introduction

The concept of good conduct wanes with the political institutions and social traditions of the community. Education has two aims: institutional training and good conduct. Indiscipline is a serious problem everywhere, but it hits the hardest in big cities where classes are large; where huge percentage of the student population learns its social behaviour not in stable middle class homes but in poverty-ridden slums; where children have more economic deprivation and more emotional and physical problems than they bring to school with them; where inadequacy in language is often a barrier to good communication. There are no easy answers to the ...