ABSTRACT
Behaviour in the classroom can be seen as a continuum at one end is the authoritarian classroom, where the teacher is in control of the students and punishes them if they misbehave; at the other is a permissive approach, where students do as they please. Cognitive theorists see people as possessing the capacity for both good and evil and making choices about their behaviour. It is egalitarian, allocating equal worth to all people, with teacher's status coming from their skills and expertise, rather than from having power over students. The goal of discipline within humanist theory is to develop self-discipline, so that people are humane and compassionate and act in accordance with their own high values. The behaviour for learning conceptual framework, which came from a systematic literature review, is put forward as an alternative perspective on behaviour. Using the term 'learning behaviour', suggest Ellis and Tod, reduce perceptions that 'promoting learning' and 'managing behaviour' are separate issues for teachers.
