Factores que influyen en la disciplina del aula y algunas estrategias de los profesores para mantener el orden y un buen ambiente de enseñanza. : Un estudio comparativo entre alumnos y profesores de octavo grado en Nicaragua y Suecia

Sammanfattning: The present study examines the strategies teachers use to keep order and discipline in the classroom. For this reason, a survey has been done to two groups of eighth grade in Managua, Nicaragua and one in Karlstad, Sweden as well as an interview to their teachers. Totally seven teachers from both countries were interviewed. One conclusion from this study is that strategies used by teachers usually do not correspond to what students ask, who require an active presence of teachers when disorder happens in the classroom. Other than that, teachers many times decide to remain quiet to call the groups attention. This contrast arises due to the different expectations and roles that both teachers and students have about setting up discipline in the classroom. In the other hand, the stress on students is an important fact in the group discipline since most of them decide to talk about other issues away from the lesson among themselves. According to the interviews, another factor that affects harmony in the classroom is the amount of students, schedule and lesson plan among others. This way, one difference between teachers ́ perception on students discipline and their grades was noticeable. Teachers from Sweden stated that there is a relation, since undisciplined students had bad grades. Otherwise, the ones from Nicaragua mentioned that misbehavior or indiscipline were not directly related to grades. On the contrary, often indisciplined students had good grades.