Against the tide: enacting respectful student behaviour polices in 'zero tolerance' times
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2016
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Johnson, B.
Sullivan, A.
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Sullivan, A.
Johnson, B.
Lucas, B.
Johnson, B.
Lucas, B.
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Source details - Title: challenging dominant views on student behaviour at school: answering back, 2016 / Sullivan, A., Johnson, B., Lucas, B. (ed./s), Ch.11, pp.163-180
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School leaders are under pressure to ensure that their schools ‘manage’ students’ behaviour to establish ‘good order’. They are required to interpret, reconcile and make decisions about the plethora of legislation, policies and practices that relate to student behaviour in schools. This policy work is messy and complex, and influenced by ideological differences about the status children and the ways to ‘discipline’ them. The challenge for schools is to enact polices that do not aim simply to control students but rather aim to treat students with respect and enable them to develop as individuals with a sense of agency within a community of learners. This ‘policy work’ that schools do is the focus of the research reported in this chapter. We present findings from the Behaviour at School Study that show how schools can develop and enact respectful student behaviour policies.
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Copyright 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore