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Article: Being Good: Rethinking Classroom Management and Student Discipline.(Book Review)
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- Theory into Practice
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- September 22, 2003
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Being Good: Rethinking Classroom Management and Student Discipline, by Steven Wolk. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002, 144 pp., $19.50 (paper).
In the traditional way of thinking about classroom management, classrooms have a sense of order and structure when students are "being good." This usually means students sit quietly in their seats and stay on-task. In Being Good: Rethinking Classroom Management and Student Discipline, author Steven Wolk challenges the traditional beliefs about classroom management and questions the definition of structure, order, and what it means to be "good" in today's classrooms.
In contrast to the traditional classroom ...