American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The study of teachers’ and students’ perceptions of discipline in a secondary school in Sunyani became necessary as a result of deviant behaviour of some students in Ghanaian secondary schools in recent times. Several measures have been taken by school authorities to curb this unruly behaviour of the students but to no avail. The study was designed to investigate teachers’ and students’ perceptions of discipline in secondary schools. Purposive sampling was used to sample 50 teachers who occupied various positions in the secondary school and 150 students comprising the Students Representative Council, class prefects and their secretaries. In all, 200 respondents were used for the study. A questionnaire was designed for the respondents. The main findings of the study were that both teachers and students of the school generally agreed on what constitute discipline, and also teachers and students admitted that eight out of the sixteen acts of indiscipline that were administered were found to occur most frequently in the school.