ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to help schools review their own policy and practice by describing what a small number of secondary schools in a research study did. Discipline in schools has long been a concern to teachers, parents, politicians and education authorities. There are many books offering advice to teachers about classroom discipline, suggesting that new teachers shouldn't 'smile until Christmas', and identifying a range of approaches which experienced teachers have found effective. The continuing popularity of these texts suggests beginning teachers, at any rate, are in search of recipes which will ensure effective discipline in their classrooms. The autonomy of the individual teachers to define their own standards of discipline could be constrained under either system of extended or restricted departmental autonomy. The final influence on whole school discipline which emerged from researching the schools was that of management.
