Disruptive Children-Disruptive Schools?

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Disruptive pupil behaviour was a major concern to teachers, parents, and education authorities in the 1980s. The Elton committee (1989) reported that serious violence to teachers was rare but that problems of disruption, often aggravated by the poor training of teachers, was widespread and increasing. First published in 1984, Disruptive Children-Disruptive Schools? helped pioneer the idea... Read more

Part One: The Issues 1. Blackboard Jungles 2. The Commonsense View of Disruption 3. Defining and Understanding Disruption 4. Approaches to Disruption 5. Researching Disruption Part Two: Whole Schools and Disruption 6. Two Whole School Studies 7. Incidents of Disruptive Behaviour 8. Children and Disruption 9. Teachers and Disruption 10. Disruptive Behaviour and Some Multi-Ethnic Considerations 11. The Genesis and Life of the Difficult School Part Three: Techniques for Coping with Disruptive Behaviour in Schools 12. Introduction 13. A Check List: Reacting to Difficult and Unusual Behaviour in Ten to Thirteen Year Olds 14. A Difficulty Grid: Measuring the Difficulty of Classes in a Secondary School 15. An Encouragement Project 16. Conclusions: On Strategies for Coping Part Four: The Local Education Authority and Central Government 17. Local Education Authorities’ Policies and Disruptive Behaviour 18. The Department of Education and Science’s Response to Disruption 19. Special Units: Costs and Benefits 20. Initial Teacher Training 21. The Contributions to INSET of Action Research 22. Parents and Disruptive Behaviour in Schools Part Five: Conclusions 23. Conclusions