Disruptive behaviour of students at elementary level: A Case study from a Public School at Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Disruptive behaviour of students has recently become an emerging problem at school level in Pakistan. Although there have been a very few studies as to determine the ratio of such scenarios between public and private sector schools, however, both the systems have evidence for it. The current research study was aimed at identifying the causes and then introducing some remedial treatment to one of the identified cases exhibiting high levels of disruptive behaviour. For this purpose, the study was divided into two phases. At the first stage, the teacher researcher identified some of the causal factors underlying the disruptive behaviour of the child, in the light of literature review, by different means. In order to comprehensively identify the factors, interviews of the teachers, peers and family were conducted. At the second phase, keeping the identified causes in view, a remedial treatment was introduced for the child for a period of about 8 weeks. The treatment was successful for the duration of the study, but the absence of the treatment led to the turning back of the child to the previously adopted ways. The study explores interesting day to day behavioural changes and attempts to answer how a treatment can be helpful for the future researchers and practitioners.