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PUPILS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS TEACHERS' STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR
Author(s) -
O'HAGAN F. J.,
EDMUNDS G.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1982.tb02519.x
Subject(s) - psychology , variety (cybernetics) , developmental psychology , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence
S ummary . A booklet describing a variety of control strategies used by teachers in dealing with disruptive behaviours was administered to 60 male and 60 female comprehensive school pupils in order to ascertain their opinions along several evaluative dimensions. The results showed that initiatory aggressive strategies which may appear to be effective in controlling misbehaviour could well have deleterious consequences in other ways. Males declared themselves more likely to misbehave than females. The overall findings would tend to suggest that in the normal comprehensive school it is as important to be aware of potentially disturbing situations as it is to be aware of potentially disruptive pupils.