ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with management and control in the classroom. It does not pretend to offer a panacea for all the manifold challenges and difficulties that are potentially present in the modern classroom; nor does it attempt to deal with the more problematic aspects of behaviour like bad language, violence and truancy. To do so would be to swing the balance of the pages that follow in the direction of juvenile delinquency and so distort the overall picture of classroom behaviour. In any case, should these and comparable incidents arise in the course of a student teacher’s school experience, they should be referred to a senior member of staff as soon as is practically possible. What we do aim to do in this chapter, however, is to offer the reader a framework for securing and maintaining the co-operation of students in classroom activities. To this end, we attempt to bring together a range of stimulating ideas, perspectives and concepts – some theoretical, others the result of recent research – that will provide the student teacher with an operational base for achieving a positive, humane and constructive approach to management and control in the classroom.
