The authors of this comprehensive text discuss the root causes of disruptive behaviour, tackle assessment issues and develop effective intervention strategies that will be of practical use to teachers and other educators. Whilst theorising behaviour management from a range of perspectives: psychodynamic, behavioural and socio-cultural, the authors remain firmly focused on practical issues of policy making, assessment and intervention, and address a wide range of related issues, such as:
This book will appeal to anyone for whom behaviour in schools is a key concern, such as student teachers, teacher educators, senior school managers and practising teachers undertaking further study in the field.
Chapter 1: Understanding Inclusion and behaviour manaagement, Chapter 2: Everyday explanations: student or environment? Chapter 3: Societal understandings, Chapter 4: Cultural understandings of learning and behaviour, Chapter 5: Biological and medical explanations of behaviour, Chapter 6: Psychological understandings of behaviour, Chapter 7: Asessment of students' behaviour, Chapter 8: Working at individual level, Chapter 9: Working at class-wide level, Chapter 10: Addressing behaviour at school-wide level, Chapter 11: School, home and community working together, Chapter 12: Developing school policy