Industrial Arts Teachers' Personal Characteristics Related to the Frequency of Discipline Problems

Résumé du livre

A lack of discipline has frequently been reported as a major problem in public school systems. The lack of discipline manifests itself in many problem areas. This lack may be stimulated by student rejection of authority. Gallup (1974: 21) reported that discpline "again heads the list of problems cited most often by survey respondents." Discipline has, infact, been named in the Phi Delta Kappan "Sixth Annual Gallup Poll of Public Attitudes Toward Education" as the number-one problem of the schools in five of the last six years. Most institutions of authority have been challenged including the police, the military, the church, the high schools, and the universities. Young people do not seem to want t o be admonished by their superiors, that is, if they even recognize their superiors at all (Dobson, 1973)