Date of Award

1-1-2000

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Education

Department

-

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

This project paper is a case study of four students in a Secondary School in Port Klang, Selangor. These four students are male. This study is to investigate whether peers, family students themselves are the factors influencing discipline problems in school. Data collection done through interview. It was a semi-structured interview for each student and parents. Beside that other documents such as School Discipline Record and 001 card were examined. The findings of the case study are :- 1. Among the factors influencing discipline problems in Secondary School is learning difficulty face by the students, disability in academic and less interest in the studies. 2. Peers will have similar academic problems. Moreover the living standard of peen and the family background of peen are looks similar. They usually live in nearby neighborhood. Therefore they feel more comfort and safety to mix around in a same group. 3. Parents pay less attention to their children's academic problems. 1n the other hand the duty to educate their children was given to school. Parents from these categories disable to carry out their responsibility to discipline their kids. As a result the parents will face problems to help the children in overcoming academic problems. This will become difficulty for the Subject to follow the school rules . 4. Peers, family and Subject are three factors related one and another to produce discipline problems among Form 2 students.

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Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya, 2000.

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