CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION by Ronald E. Butchart -- PART I. HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT -- 1. Punishments, Penalties, Prizes, and Procedures: A History of Discipline in U.S. Schools by Ronald E. Butchart -- 2. Uncontrolled Students Eventually Become Unmanageable: The Politics of Classroom Discipline by Landon E. Beyer -- PART II. ETHNOGRAPHIC AND PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT -- 3. The Visceral Pleasures of the Well-Worn Rut: Internal Barriers to Changing the Social Relations of American Classrooms by Jackie Blount
4. Why is Michael always Getting Timed Out? Race, Class, and the Disciplining of Other People's Children by Brian M. McCadden5. Contradiction, Paradox, and Irony: The World of Classroom Management by Barbara McEwan -- 6. Interpreting Glasser's Control Theory: Problems that Emerge from Innate Needs and Predetermined Ends by Sue Ellen Henry and Kathleen Knight Abowitz -- PART III. TOWARD A CURRICULUM OF DEMOCRATIC CIVILITY: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES OF CRITICAL CONSTRUCTIVIST DISCIPLINE -- 7. Judicious Discipline by Forrest Gathercoal
8. But Will it Work? The Practice of Judicious Discipline in Southern Minnesota Schools by Virginia L. Nimmo9. Empathic Caring in Classroom Management and Discipline by Sharon A. Stanley -- CONCLUSION by Barbara McEwan -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W