ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some approaches to managing behaviour and those that have been promoted by the British government. It looks at the strengths and limitations of a range of approaches and considers what the impact of these might be in schools. The chapter highlights the need for training to ensure teachers remained what it described as 'confident and committed' to managing behaviour. It shows how the British government's views on behaviour management in English schools have remained stable and yet additional, and at times conflicting, polices have emerged. In 2009 ‘Delivering the Behaviour Challenge’ (DCSF, 2009) took an even more strongly worded stance, stating, ‘there will be good behaviour, strong discipline and order’. Government policy has continued along these lines more recently with a renewed focus within Ofsted inspections on the quality of behaviour in schools, where behaviour and attitudes and personal development will form separate components of the report.
