ABSTRACT
This chapter is a streamlined version of the chapter on classroom organization andmanagement that I wrote for the Third Edition of the Handbook of Research on Teaching (Doyle, 1986a). The original chapter was written from an ecological perspective and contains the core of what that perspective is and what it means for classroom management. In this revision I have tried to maintain the basic outline and topic structure, but have reduced the number of citations and combined or eliminated sections that primarily elaborated the main themes but were not essential to an overall understanding of an ecological approach. At the end of the present chapter, I have added an appraisal of the current status of and prospects for an ecological approach to classroom management. Readers interested in more details are referred to the 1986 version. For an updated application of an ecological stance to classroom management in early childhood and elementary classrooms, readers are also referred to the chapter by Carter and Doyle in this Handbook.
