Principalship and Effective Management of Teachers’ Indiscipline in Nigeria Secondary Schools.

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VII, July 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Principalship and Effective Management of Teachers’ Indiscipline in Nigeria Secondary Schools.

Prof. Cletus Ngozi Uwazurike¹, Esther Chinasa Ugochukwu^2
1Former Provost Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria
¹Former Dean, Faculty of Education, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria
¹Professor of Educational Management and Planning, Imo State University Owerri, Nigeria.
²Department of Educational Management and Planning, Faculty of Education, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria.

I. INTRODUCTION
Education has been given top priority in the affairs of many nations. Over the years, it has been the desire of man to acquire knowledge. The attraction which education enjoys stems from the fact that it equips one for life. Anugom and Obioha, (2010:15) assert that “it is through education that an individual masters his environment and acquires the necessary tools for living worthwhile life”. It also forms the basis upon which economic, social and political development of any nation is founded. Investing in education helps in fostering economic growth, enhancing productivity, contributing to national and social development, and reducing social inequality.
Secondary education is defined as the form of education children receive after primary education and before the tertiary stage. Abolade (2003:34) describe secondary education level as probably “the most unique and precarious of all other levels of education”. This is because, he saw it as a pivot or junction box of all the subsets of the tertiary level. It is that junction where the different higher education takes off.
Secondary school education is bedeviled with problems which assume a gargantuan dimension that may sometimes prove perplexing for an administrator to cope with. These problems are seen in areas of transportation, accommodation, poor staffing, inability to form a workable forum at meetings, indiscipline, absenteeism, truancy, late coming, low student population as among other problems which an administrator often has to battle with.
The principal’s effective leadership is considered to be an important element in proper school functioning. The principal as the chief executive officer of the school is accountable for the success or failure of the school. For the school to achieve its goal, the teachers must be disciplined and committed to their duties. At all times, the principal should provide disciplinary control over the behaviour of teachers for higher level performance. Presently, the school system has come under serious scrutiny by managers of education due to the inability of school heads to effectively manage indiscipline among teachers. In some schools, one notices that school principals are not forthcoming in the management of teachers’ indiscipline. Indiscipline among teachers manifest in truancy, lateness, absenteeism, non-attendance to lessons,

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