Classroom Discipline, Emerging Concerns and Research Priority

This paper was planned to examine indiscipline or disruptive behaviours in classroom from the perspectives of teachers as well as students from different countries around the globe.This paper discussed disciplinary issues in three sections namely, teachers' and students' conceptions on indiscipline and behavioural problems.The second section visualized teachers' experience on disciplinary issue during classroom teaching learning process.The third section focused on problems faced by teachers while imposing disciplinary strategies in the classroom.The paper identified various indiscipline acts exhibited by students and recommended constructive suggestions regarding disciplinary measures and classroom management skills to control the disruptive behaviours of students.This review paper gives a new direction to all stakeholders who are associated with education to take initiatives to conduct research to explore existing classroom problems and disciplinary strategies for effective teaching and learning.