Learner discipline: An Australian perspective
Australian schools by and large are safe schools. Nonetheless discipline problems do exist – including bullying behaviour. For this kind of problem schools should have management policies in place. As traditional behaviour-management practices – including corporal punishment – are largely prohibited in Australian schools, contemporary practices centre on management through supportive school programmes, including appropriate curricula and school-support structures. This article supports the belief that measures such as the exclusion of misbehaving learners should be treated with caution. Measures such as this might not reflect accepted international principles and practices and should only be exercised in the most extreme circumstances. The article also supports the view that it is part of the school’s role to ensure that all learners are aware of the reality that while they have rights, they also have corresponding responsibilities. This awareness is more likely to be achieved in a supportive school culture where each learner is recognised as having unique qualities that can mature and grow in an appropriate learning environment.
The role of counseling in improving students’ disciplinary problems: The case of some selected high schools of Nifas Silk Lafto sub-city, Addis Ababa. Asfaw Girm aThesis submitted to The department
The main purpose of this research was to investigate the role of counseling in improving students’ disciplinary problems in selected secondary school in Nifas silk lafto sub-city,Addis Ababa. The study adopted a mixed method for data collection and data analysis. Target population was 393 which comprised of 358 students, 12 principals, 20 teachers and 3 school counselor all drawn from 3 schools. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the 358 students and 20 teachers. Availability sampling was used to select Principals’ and school counselor. Questionnaire and interview schedule were used to collect data. The data collected through questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages). Data collected using interview schedule were transcribed and organized into themes, categories and sub-categories as they emerged from the data. The study concluded that counseling services didn’t adequately contribute to students’ disciplinary problems as a result of inadequate facilities, high teachers’ work load, lack of counseling rooms/office and lack of cooperation among staff member for providing counseling services were being used in schools. Punishments especially corporal and physical punishment was widely used to solve disciplinary cases in all school. The study recommended that effective counseling service programs should be put in place as essential parts of schools by the school administrators to improve student discipline and school administrators and board of management to take counseling services in their schools seriously by ensuring adequate budgetary allocation and provision of necessary facilities.
The Need For A Sacred Science
The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today.