Discipline and Discipline Managing Techniques
DISCIPLINE and discipline managing techniques
1. What is Discipline?
Discipline has always been an essential and difficult aspect of education for without discipline there can be no effective teaching (Dreikurs et.al.1998:80). The meaning of discipline and the techniques of dealing with misbehaviour have been modified throughout the preceding decades. Especially the consolidation of democracy has transformed the sense of discipline and methods that were regular and acceptable ten or twenty years ago are inadmissible nowadays. In order to select the discipline managing strategies that correspond to nowadays’ classroom, the signification of discipline should be comprehended. The derivation of the word discipline is inseparably connected with education; it comes from the Latin word disculpus which means student and Latin disciplina refers to the way of treating students (Sulich 2004:33). Nowadays, several authors offer their interpretation of the term discipline: 1. Discipline is the practice of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing if they do not; the controlled behaviour or situation that results from this training. Discipline is the ability to control your behaviour or the way you live, work, etc. (Brown et.al. 2000:330) 2. On the one hand discipline is correcting inappropriate behaviour by external controls, but on the other hand discipline means developing internal controls over one’s own behaviour (Husen and Postlethwaite 1995). 3. Discipline is the kind of behaviour through which the child experiences acceptance by others and consequently greater acceptance of himself. The establishment of self-approval is the strongest form of control (Dreikurs et.al. 1998:81). 4. Discipline is teaching the child that there are certain rules in life that people live and that it is expected that the child will become accustomed to these rules and adopt them for his own. (Dreikurs et.al. 1998:85) 5. Discipline in the classroom is
1. What is Discipline?
Discipline has always been an essential and difficult aspect of education for without discipline there can be no effective teaching (Dreikurs et.al.1998:80). The meaning of discipline and the techniques of dealing with misbehaviour have been modified throughout the preceding decades. Especially the consolidation of democracy has transformed the sense of discipline and methods that were regular and acceptable ten or twenty years ago are inadmissible nowadays. In order to select the discipline managing strategies that correspond to nowadays’ classroom, the signification of discipline should be comprehended. The derivation of the word discipline is inseparably connected with education; it comes from the Latin word disculpus which means student and Latin disciplina refers to the way of treating students (Sulich 2004:33). Nowadays, several authors offer their interpretation of the term discipline: 1. Discipline is the practice of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing if they do not; the controlled behaviour or situation that results from this training. Discipline is the ability to control your behaviour or the way you live, work, etc. (Brown et.al. 2000:330) 2. On the one hand discipline is correcting inappropriate behaviour by external controls, but on the other hand discipline means developing internal controls over one’s own behaviour (Husen and Postlethwaite 1995). 3. Discipline is the kind of behaviour through which the child experiences acceptance by others and consequently greater acceptance of himself. The establishment of self-approval is the strongest form of control (Dreikurs et.al. 1998:81). 4. Discipline is teaching the child that there are certain rules in life that people live and that it is expected that the child will become accustomed to these rules and adopt them for his own. (Dreikurs et.al. 1998:85) 5. Discipline in the classroom is