ABSTRACT
This chapter presents teachers and schools with practical solutions for educating students about the experience and expression of their anger. The chapter looks at the potentially damaging effects of unchecked and poorly managed anger, including UK statistics on crime and health. Research into anger explains that males and females experience anger as frequently and intensely as men, but male anger is problematic insofar as it typically manifests as overt aggression. The chapter also looks at anger as a positive as well as destructive force. The chapter presents research from Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen, and Jennifer Lerner, on potential external causes for anger and successfully translates these into realistic classroom scenarios. The book explains the physical and hormonal responses to the triggering of anger and how these manifest. It encourages teachers and other adults to avoid the conflation of displays of male anger and aggression with poor behaviour without examining the cause of the anger. The chapter then presents various strategies, including scripts, for both recognising and dealing with the expression of male anger in classrooms. The problematic use of time-outs is discussed. Anger management and anger recognition techniques from Bill Rogers and others are outlined.
