Teachers' sense-making of student behavior determines whether students get in trouble and are formally disciplined. Status categories, such as race, can influence perceptions of student culpability, but the degree to which teachers' initial identification of student misbehavior exacerbates racial disproportionality in discipline receipt is…

Teachers' sensemaking of student behavior determines whether students get in trouble and are formally disciplined. Status categories, such as race, can influence perceptions of student culpability, but the degree to which teachers' initial identification of student misbehavior exacerbates racial disproportionality in discipline receipt is unknown.…

The management of ill-discipline among learners has become a serious challenge for teachers. This article reports on a study conducted to determine how teachers in the primary schools of the Matjhabeng Municipality, Free State, South Africa, manage ill-discipline among learners. A mixed method approach, which comprised a questionnaire and…

This paper focuses on the forms of reflexivity that emerge in the conversational narratives of Latin American teenage school girls co-produced during sociolinguistic interviews, in a multicultural school in the centre of Madrid. The narratives about confrontation at school portray the girls' actions and ways of making sense of such behaviours, in…

Extension publication editors from around the United States are finding cases of plagiarism within manuscripts that Extension educators submit as new public education materials. When editors confront such educators with the problem, some don't understand it as such, rationalizing that reproducing published information for a new purpose qualifies…

Researchers have identified a civilising mission in elementary schools in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, particularly in poor urban areas. School log books from the 14 schools in Birmingham and Leicester, supplemented by other primary and secondary sources, are examined for insights into how headteachers perceived, and acted…

Research discovered six categories of adult behavior that lead to student discipline problems--inconsistent rule enforcement, noncompliance with discipline policies, insensitivity, lack of data, lack of classroom management skills, and inadequate administration of discipline policies. (Author/IRT)

Classroom discipline is one of the main study topics of contemporary educators. Even in developed western countries it is regarded as the primary problem of education. Classroom discipline is one of the many conditions that are necessary for reaching educational targets. Many factors like desired and undesired student behaviors, student-student,…

Offers considerations that can guide teachers in the examination of their own attitudes and behaviors regarding discipline problems. Presents a model to help teachers deal with discipline problems, including an analysis of sources of misbehavior, prevention techniques, phases of discipline, and behavior adjustment. (Author/JM)

This study investigated discipline problems as perceived and dealt with by student teachers. (RC)

Experienced elementary (K-6) teachers nominated by their principals as either outstanding or average at dealing with problem students described their general strategies for coping with hostile-aggressive students and told how they would handle incidents depicted in two vignettes portraying aggression at school. Transcripts of these responses were…

This article addresses the possible causes of discipline problems in the classroom. (MM)

Suggests a practical approach to solving the class discipline problem that includes information and skills that teachers need to have as well as six criteria for setting effective classroom behavior limits. (RK)

This study examined discipline problems arising in kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms and teachers' attempts to solve them. A total of 746 students in 35 classrooms were observed by 35 teacher-education students placed in separate classrooms in southern New Jersey. During ten 50-minute observation sessions, each student directly observed…