vbid/9781453900208

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For over a century, teachers, parents, and school leaders have lamented a loss of �discipline� in classrooms. Caught between guidance approaches on the one hand and a call for zero tolerance on the other, current debates rarely venture beyond the terrain of implementation strategies. This book aims to reinvigorate thinking on �discipline� in education by challenging the notions, foundations, and paradigms that underpin its use in policy and practice. It confronts the understanding of �discipline� as purely repressive, and raises the possibility of enabling forms and conceptualizations of �discipline� that challenge tokenistic avenues for students� liberation and enhance students� capacity for agency. This book is an essential resource for university lecturers, pre-service and in-service teachers, policymakers, and educational administrators who want to re-think �discipline� in education in ways that move beyond a concern with managing disorder, to generate alternative understandings that can make a difference in students� lives.Typham this is the title: Re-Theorizing Discipline in Education Problems, Politics, and Possibilities 1st Edition