CHILDHOOD INDISCIPLINE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: CHALLENGES AND ACTIONS AT SCHOOL

Abstract

In the chapter “Child Indiscipline in the Early Years of Elementary School: Challenges and Actions in School”, the authors address how indiscipline within the school context significantly affects the teaching-learning process, presenting delicate situations that permeate the educational environment. It also explores how this process is experienced by families and the school community, exposing sensitive points and how general experiences are impacted. The authors discuss how this dynamic can interfere with both the learning process and the student's social relationships with their peers, providing a broad view that indiscipline affects all aspects: teacher-student relations, the school community, peer interactions, and the family environment. The text provides guidelines and strategies that contribute to a harmonious environment and emphasizes, in an objective manner, how to understand, identify, prevent, and intervene assertively. Finally, coping actions are presented for teachers and the school community to adopt both inside and outside the classroom, seeking to offer an environment that fosters teaching and learning while minimizing the impacts caused by child indiscipline in the early years of Elementary School.