The objective of
this paper is to verify public school teachers’ conceptions about indiscipline
and to investigate behaviors and/or events that occur in the classroom and are
considered indiscipline, their possible causes and ways of dealing with the
problem. The literature points out that several factors help in the
configuration of frame of indiscipline in schools, but it can’t be ignored as a
problem to be resolved fundamentally in the teacher-student relationship, and the educational-school psychologist is therefore
an important mediator in this relationship. Forty-eight public school teachers
participated in this study in Parnaiba, Brazil, applying semi-structured
questionnaires and accomplishing content analysis using the program ATLAS.ti 7.
In general, teachers understand indiscipline as aggressiveness, restlessness,
inattentiveness, talking, disrespect to peers and teachers, lack of zeal with
material, degradation of the heritage school, lateness, delays, emotional
problems, etc. About the causes, the analysis shows the categories: “stand out
familiar problems” and “personal problems”, “social problems”, “difficulties in
the school-family partnership” and, in a smaller proportion, “didactic and
pedagogical questions” and “absence of religiousness”. The majority confront
the problem by talking with the students and communiques to the family, trying
to improve the methodology of the lessons, and just a few teachers share the
situation with a director.
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Publication Date | September 1, 2015 |
Published in Issue | Year 2015 Volume: 3 |