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It is considered as crucial to determine the opinions of the students who lived in different cultures and have similar characteristics, regarding the discipline, class rules, and punishment given when these rules are disobeyed, and to reveal the effects of layers caused by cultural structure on students, also to develop strategies as solutions once defining the discipline problems in class. The purpose of this study is to reveal comparatively the opinions of Turkish elementary school students in Turkey and Norway, about discipline, class rules and punishment for the disobeyed rules. The study was realised with qualitative research method. The data was collected from 37 elementary students (4th and 5th grade) studying in Turkey and 36 elementary students (4th and 5th grade) studying in Norway, through a questionnaire with open-ended questions. The data was analyzed through descriptive method. Findings of the study indicated that the students in Turkey perceived the concept of discipline more negatively and mentioned about more rules to be obeyed in comparison with participants in Norway. Findings of the study also revealed that Turkish students in Norway obeyed the classroom rule more than the students in Turkey. When the students disobeyed the rules, students in Turkey were punished, whereas Turkish students in Norway got warned orally.

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