BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMSAMONGST STUDENTS (SECONDARY SCHOOLS) IN NNEWI NORTH AREA OF ANAMBRA STATE: IMPLICATIONS FOR LEARNING

Abstract

The students’ behavioural problems manifest in their refusal to comply with the school rules and regulations including other societal ethical norms. The researchers appraise the good, the bad and the ugly in the society as products of family institution where these students spend most of their time at the early stage of their lives. The research aims at finding some causes of behavioural problems amongst secondary school students in Nnewi North Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State. The purpose of the work is to critically investigate the causes of behavioural problems amongst secondary school students which are becoming uncontrollable particularly in Nnewi North LGA of Anambra State, Nigeria. In this aspect, the study is limited to Senior Secondary class two students (SSII) within the four randomly chosen public schools in Nnewi North LGA. In its methodology, the researchers administered questionnaires to a population randomly chosen for sampling for the purpose of the study and followed by description of the procedures. Again, guidance-counselling and virtue ethics form the theoretical frameworks, in other words, the present work stands on an interdisciplinary platform of education and Christian ethics. The research identifies this problem and associates it with a number of causes which include poor parental upbringing, societal negative influence, peer group pressure, indiscipline, corruption, unemployment, among other ones. The results of the findings will help parents realize the need to give their children basic home training and on time, thereby helping these students avoid any act of misconduct in the societal. At the end, the study makes a number of recommendations for curbing behavioural problems amongst secondary school students in society.