Perspectives on Student Behaviour Exploring theory and developing practice

✍ Scribed by Jani Wearmouth

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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: policy in relation to behaviour in schools at local authority, national and international level cultural concerns, race, gender, school discipline and exclusion medical perspectives of topical interest such as ADHD, autism and diet assessment at district, community, classroom and individual level, and how these underpin theory. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title: Perspectives on Student Behaviour in Schools......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Understanding inclusion and behaviour management......Page 10
2 Everyday explanations......Page 34
3 Societal understandings......Page 45
4 Cultural understandings of learning and behaviour......Page 64
5 Biological and medical explanations of behaviour......Page 82
6 Psychological understandings of behaviour......Page 95
7 Assessment of students’ behaviour......Page 119
8 Working at individual level......Page 139
9 Working at class-wide level......Page 170
10 Addressing behaviour at school-wide level......Page 189
11 School, home and community working together......Page 227
12 Developing school policy......Page 254
Bibliography......Page 268
Index......Page 299