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Direct linkCalhoun, Avery; Daniels, Gail – Journal of School Violence, 2008
While it is generally agreed that students responsible for misbehavior should be held accountable, the meaning of accountability and how it might best be achieved appear to remain ill-defined. In this article, we propose that accountability can be operationalized as a fourfold process. Based on related literature, experience, and empirical…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Accountability, Behavior Problems, Bullying
O'Brien, Allan R.; Pietersma, Eric – Education Canada, 2000
The constitutionality of section 43 of the Canadian criminal code, which provides a defense to the use of reasonable and corrective force on children, has been challenged. The Canadian Teachers' Federation argues that the case is not about spanking, but about enabling teachers to maintain order and create a positive, effective learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Corporal Punishment, Court Litigation, Criminal Law
Download full textMacDonald, Irene – 1997
A study of junior high schools (MacDonald 1995) found that students and administrators held significantly different perceptions regarding the nature, extent, and management of violent behaviors. This paper presents findings of a study conducted 1 year later that more thoroughly examined students' perceptions of the effectiveness of current school…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools
MacDonald, Irene M.; da Costa, Jose L. – 1996
Research on school violence has slowly gained momentum in Canada, underscoring the concern some educators are expressing about the frequency of behaviors that seriously disrupt student learning. This paper presents findings of a study that compared students' and administrators' perceptions of the nature, extent, awareness, and management of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Aggression, Discipline Policy, Foreign Countries
MacDonald, Irene – 1997
This paper introduces a project that sought to examines students' perceptions of the meaning of school violence, its impact on their schooling experience, and the effectiveness of current strategies for dealing with violent behaviors. Interviews were conducted with 60 students in grades 7-9 (in groups of 12) drawn from 5 K-9 schools in central…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Educational Environment
Gallagher, Kathleen; Fusco, Caroline – Ethnography and Education, 2006
This paper explores spatial theory, and particularly a Foucauldian analysis of space, power, and the subject, as a frame within which to examine moves toward security in North American urban schools. We bring into play empirical data from an ethnographic study of New York City and Toronto schools where policies and technologies of record-keeping,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Ethnography, Research Problems, Research Methodology
