EXPLORING THE ROLE OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN MITIGATING INDISCIPLINE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN IBADAN NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF OYO STATE

The study aims at investigating the factors that are contributing to indiscipline among secondary schools in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. The descriptive Survey method was adopted for the study. The methodology involved a sample of three (300) respondents, one hundred and sixty (160) students and one hundred and forty (140) teachers selected from ten schools used for the study. The instrument used was the questionnaire (QFTOFTIASS) and (QFSOFTIASS) for the teachers and students respectively. These research questions and hypotheses were tested through the use of questionnaire of two forms. The results revealed that significant relationship exist between students’ family background, school authority, peer groups, government’s influence and acts of indispline on the part of students. The data therefore support the hypothesis of relationship in the students’ acts of indiscipline with the afore mentioned independent variables. The writer idealize the Islamic teachings contain in the Holy Qura’an and Hadith in solving the menace of indiscipline and reform their moral discipline, thus we have the standard discipline, thus we have the standard discipline among our students in our schools in particular and the society in general. The writer is of the opinion that in the effort to instill discipline and minimize indiscipline problem in schools, the society, teachers and parents should join hands to make sure the challenge of indiscipline is reduced to the barest minimum. Moreover, it is suggested that the Government at all levels should allow the teaching of religious education (Islamic and Christian education) in our secondary schools for moral behaviour in the sense that fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Keywords: Indiscipline, Students, Mitigating, Islamic Education, Panacea.