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Troublesome Behaviour in the Classroom

Why do some pupils behave badly in school? What can teachers do about it?

This thoroughly updated edition of Troublesome Behaviour in the

Classroom is the most comprehensive and practical guide available on the

subject of behaviour management in schools.

Discipline problems are frequently seen as a cause for increasing concern

in schools. In this book, the author examines the full range of difficult

behaviour from nursery age children to teenagers, and shows how it can be

understood in terms of pupils’ motives, their domestic peer-group and

classroom contexts. He then demonstrates how it can be dealt with through

teachers’ skills, techniques and attitudes.

Distinguished by Mick McManus’ lively and witty writing style, the

book is very readable and is packed with practical ideas, activities, insights

and solutions which will be invaluable to all student and classroom

teachers.

Mick McManus has been a teacher for twenty years and is now head of

secondary education at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is a regular

contributor to school-based staff-training days.

Troublesome Behaviour in

the Classroom

Meeting individual needs

Second edition

Mick McManus

London and New York

First published 1989

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Second edition published 1995

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or

other means, now known or hereafter invented, including

photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval

system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

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ISBN 0-415-11360-1 (Print Edition)

ISBN 0-203-13282-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-17616-2 (Glassbook Format)