ABSTRACT
The expressive order of the school consists of the modes of approved behaviour it transmits and the activities used in their transmission. This chapter describes the way in which expressive activities are organised, and the pupils’ involvement in them. It deals with the organisation of pupil behaviour, in terms of the way it is standardised, formalised and ritualised. The measurements are related to the social characteristics of the pupils, the type of school they attend, and the organisation of expressive activities. Some individual items have a particularly high incidence in certain categories of school. The ‘adults first in the bus queue’ rule occurred in five of the six girls’ modern schools but in none of the boys’ modern schools. Pupil behaviour is constantly assessed within schools. Thirty-two per cent of schools used a system of marks or points to reward good behaviour. The standardisation of expressive performance showed a great deal of variation by school context.
