Challenging Dominant Views on Student Behaviour at School Answering Back /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sullivan, Anna (Editor), Johnson, Bruce (Editor), Lucas, Bill (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Teaching.; Child development.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Childhood Education.

This is a deliberately provocative book. It critiques current student behaviour management practices, seeks to explain the flawed assumptions that justify those practices, and proposes how things could be better for children in our schools if different practices were adopted. It is one of the few bo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Why it is important to answer back
• Chapter 2 Daring to disagree about school 'discipline': An Australian case study of a media-led backlash
• Chapter 3 Understanding and challenging dominant discourses about student behaviour at school
• Chapter 4 Promoting pedagogies of engagement in secondary schools: Possibilities for pedagogical reform
• Chapter 5 Goodbye Mr. Chips, Hello Dr. Phil?
• Chapter 6 Rethinking mis/behaviour in schools: From 'youth as a problem' to the 'relational school'
• Chapter 7 Reframing 'behaviour' in schools: The role of recognition in improving student wellbeing
• Chapter 8 'Schoolwork' and 'teachers': Disaffected boys talk about their problems with school
• Chapter 9 Beyond the 'habits' of 'punishing criticising and nagging': Fostering respectful and socially just student relations using critical pedagogies
• Chapter 10 Overcoming the 'hidden injuries' of students from refugee backgrounds: The importance of caring teacher-student relationships
• Chapter 11 Against the tide: Enacting respectful student behaviour policies in 'zero tolerance' times
• Chapter 12 'Answering Back' - some concluding thoughts.