Strategies of Managing Student Discipline in Secondary Schools in Gulu District, Uganda
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2011-10
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International Journal of current research
Abstract
The issue of student discipline is a pervasive and constant challenge. Secondary schools in Gulu
District have also suffered alarming deterioration in student discipline in the past decade. This
study aimed at establishing relationship between school ownership and strategies of managing
student discipline in Gulu District with specific objectives of identifying strategies used in
managing student discipline. Cross-sectional parallel sample survey design was used in the study
with both qualitative and quantitative orientation. Target population consisted of headteachers,
teachers and students with 377 respondents sampled. Questionnaire survey and key informants
interview were used as techniques; interview guide and questionnaires as research instruments
for data collection respectively. Data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS). Frequencies and percentages were used. The results showed that strategies of managing
student discipline in secondary schools in Gulu district included rewards, punishment,
communication, and counselling. The researchers concluded that strategies of managing student
discipline in secondary schools in Gulu District include rewards, punishment, communication
and counselling and both faith-based and non faith-based schools in Gulu district use similar
strategies of managing student discipline. Recommendations were made that policies on
discipline management be streamlined, implementers should balance all the strategies and
researchers should delve further into each strategy of managing student discipline.
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(1) Student (2) Discipline (3) Strategies (4) Managing (5) Secondary Schools