Decided to do a search on self-discipline in education, and the results were rather thin. Most were spurious analysis confirming what we know, and then plaintive recommendations. See below for three examples.
‘Results suggest that discipline infractions are associated with more negative perceptions of school climate and provide a rationale for the use of proactive approaches to school discipline as a way to enhance student perceptions of school climate.’
Sarah A. Fefer & Kayla Gordon (2020) Exploring perceptions of school climate among secondary students with varying discipline infractions, International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 8:3, 174-183.
‘Findings suggested that creating a sense of a whole school team-oriented culture may hold promise for enhancing school connectedness.’
Carney JV, Joo H, Hazler RJ, Geckler J. Students’ Perceptions of School Connectedness and Being Part of a Team: A Brief Report Evaluating Project TEAM™. J Prim Prev. 2019
‘Overall, the findings provide novel evidence suggesting that students’ engagement can be fostered by supportive teacher-student interactions.’
Pöysä S, Vasalampi K, Muotka J, Lerkkanen MK, Poikkeus AM, Nurmi JE. Teacher-student interaction and lower secondary school students’ situational engagement. Br J Educ Psychol. 2019
Clearly a form of lunacy is being demonstrated. The tendency of academia to pathologise both psychological and sociological behaviour, means they analyse what the problem is and provide evidence of it, and then suggest vacuous recommendations like these. Only evidence of problems, no solutions.
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The papers which actually tested interventions weren’t much better. Some reported conflict of interests because the interventions were supported by tech and the owner of the providing tech were amongst the writers; others who had the same authors didn’t even reveal conflict of interest. All involved training of staff, which means high overheads.
Critical Realism
Pragmatism and Critical Realism –
Transcending Descartes’ Either/Or? In: Understanding Management Research
By: Phil Johnson & Joanne Duberley Pub. Date: 2011
Phe-noumenal
Pragmatism and Critical Realism –
Transcending Descartes’ Either/Or? In: Understanding Management Research
By: Phil Johnson & Joanne Duberley Pub. Date: 2011
how we treat kids
Managing with Mindfulness: Connecting with Students in the 21st Century
Author Tony Yeigh
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2020
Some nice content on the way, though. Critical realism as between Empirical realism and Superidealism, or alternatively ontological realism and epistemic relativism; a nice model of Kant’s noumenal as real and phe-nomenal is experienced; and a nice timeline of how science has changed how we deal with kids in class. Trust business management to come up with some nice diagrams.