Stakeholders' Involvement in Improving Student Behavior and School Discipline in Primary Schools in Cambodia

This study details the outcomes of efforts made by stakeholders to adopt school management, teachers, community and ministry parent’s involvement programs in order to improve student behavior and school discipline. This study has been conducted at primary schools, in Kandal province in Cambodia. Data were collected through interview to explore participants’ perception on student behavior and school discipline. Using data from primary schools, analyses show the percentage of students who misbehavior, of the prior rates of discipline in the schools, the more school management and community involvement programs were implemented, the less students were disciplined by being sent to the principals' offices, given detention, or suspended from class. The two types of involvement that are most correlated with a decrease in the percentage of pupils who require school discipline are parenting and volunteering. Additionally, schools with better stakeholders’ programs reported having fewer pupils who needed to be disciplined. Qualitative methods are used for data analysis. The findings imply that there are few stakeholders work as volunteering to improve student behavior and school discipline.