CULTURAL VALUES AND STUDENT INDISCIPLINE IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN LAGOS STATE

Abstract

The study examined the impact of cultural values on student indiscipline in the colleges of education in Lagos state. The study adopted descriptive survey design. All the Colleges of Education in Lagos State were the study population. Three (3) colleges of education were sampled through stratified random sampling technique (1 Federal, 1 State and 1 Private), and their Directors of the Directorate of Students’ Affairs Units. Cultural values and student indiscipline interview schedule (CVSIIS) was the instrument for gathering information from the Directors of the Directorate of students’ Affairs Units. The study reveals that, indiscipline acts barely occur frequently and the cases are reported to the Directorate of Students’ Affairs Units of the Colleges of Education in Lagos State. Examination malpractice was found out as the commonest indiscipline behaviour among the students. Over-crowded school environment and staff attitude were discovered as the factors that cause student’s indiscipline; establishment of functional counselling unit in the colleges was greatly effective in curbing misbehaviour among students. The study recommended that, students must take it upon themselves to develop keen interest and fully understand the cultural values and its divisions. College environment must be sanitised to discourage student’s indiscipline. Parents must see it as their main task to train their children, right from their childhood, in the values promoted in the society, join hands with schools when the children grow up to school age.