Master Thesis

In all cultures throughout human history, children are the source ofjoys and hopes of their parents as well as the social groups to where theybelong.However, many of these children prove to be sources of problems oftheir parents, teachers and society. If we think that these problems areunique to our contemporary scene,we need only to remind ourselves thatSocrates, to cite just one example, sadly observed that Athenian youth wassybaritic, bad mannered and scornful of authority. He further called theAthenian children as {93}tyrants" Rousek, (1980). There are no questions that more than ever, due to contemporarysocial and technological changes and the troublesome world conditions,theolder generation feel that the young are falling short of their elder's expectation. At present, schools have taken a meaningful attitude towardschildren's learning process through the implementation of modemapproaches and techniques but children's behavior problems receive scantattention. The inconsistency of the present needs of the children with thoseof the outside pressure create possibility of behavior problemsmanifestations.Thus,teachers call these children problem children but inthe real sense they are children with problems. It should be remembered that when a child enters school, hisprogress depends not only in learning academic response but also inbuilding a repertoire of adequate emotional and social behavior. He mustadopt behavior patterns which indicate self acceptance as well as selfrealization. Though the teachers, play an important role in moulding theright behavior of the youth today, the training which the teacher give tothe school children will lead to correct the wrong doing before these forminto habits.