ABSTRACT
This project is the factors responsible for indiscipline among primary school pupils in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State was carried out in five schools in this very local government mentioned above. It deals mainly with the factors responsible for indiscipline among pupils. The project also contains the sample areas and that of sample subjects. Research instrument and procedure and the methods of data collections were through questionnaires which the pupils and teachers of the selected sampled areas were sampled. Furthermore, the analysis of the data of the information gathered during the research investigation and also on presentation of findings which are as follows was also stated which include; home background as one of the factors responsible for indiscipline among pupils in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, administration, lack of teaching aids, and wealth of parents contribute to indiscipline among pupils in primary school in the Local Government Area of study. All these factors had almost paralyzed educational development in this Local Government Area.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
It is an accepted fact that children learned reflective, that is their moral conscience in works and that they waver in their obligation and attitude when they obey instructions. It is either because they have not the least doubt as to the importance of the command they have received or that they fear being reprimanded or punished for such disobedience. Adeyemi (1978) said that indiscipline is a behaviour among pupils who are maturing, seeking independence and looking for recognition as individuals. It may manifest itself in stealing, fighting resistance of authority, vandalism, shop lifting and truancy, noise making, examination malpractice etc.
We are aware that growth in crime, especially robbing with violence. Children delinquency and nation are all problems associated with indiscipline. There is a steady growth of vandalism in our schools and even at home. It is now fashionable in the country for school children to engage in all forms of indiscipline. All learning contains a measure of discipline the pupils is a learner and he is only too part of the community in which he lives (home and in the school). From the time a child first enters school and until he leaves it, his behaviour to a large extent is influenced by the growth change going on in his body. The child now needs to be guided or what he should do by parents, teachers and school authorities concerned.
Indiscipline among pupils in schools makes teaching uninteresting, especially when some children misbehave in schools. Teachers find it very hard to punish the children so as to deter them from such behaviour. Most of the problems people experience in their homes, at school and in the society as a whole arise from lack of self discipline or self control. On many occasions, nowadays the pupils will refuse to obey their teachers. It is my duty to identify factors responsible for indiscipline among pupils in primary schools in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.