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The purpose of this article is to develop insights on student-teacher conflicts by looking into the causes, management, and effects of such conflicts on students. This article, drawing on the authors’ personal experience is structured around the breakdown of communication within and outside of the organisation, across hierarchies, and its consequences. Communication can occur either upwards or downwards accross the hierarchy. It can also be official or informal, written or oral, verbal or non-verbal. The article explores and finds that teacher-student  conversation and inadequate and poor communication among the concern stakeholders were the main causes of conflict between teachers and their students. This indicates how the kids' psyche, social behaviour, and academic success can be negatively impacted with the usage of ineffective conflict resolution techniques. So, the article underlines a strong focus on developing an enabler ecosystem to resolve practising teacher-student leading eventually to a conducive teaching learning environment.

Keywords

Communication; Conflict Resolution; Student’s Psychology; Learning

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