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The Nature and Incidence of Classroom Behaviour Problems and their Remediation Through Preventive Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

Barry A. Fields
Barry A. Fields*
Affiliation:
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Educaton
*
Lecturer in Special Education, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Post Office Darling Heights, Toowoomba, Qld. 4350., Australia
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Abstract

Classroom management rates highly as one of the major concerns and problems experienced by techers. Unfortunately, evidence of the extent and nature of management problems, particularly data related to behaviourally and emotionally disturbed children in classrooms is conflicting. The result is that differences in opinion exist as to the complexity and magnitude of the interventions required to deal with such children. This study investigates the proposition that extreme behaviour problems are rare in primary classrooms and that procedures for preventive management are sufficiently powerful to alleviate most classroom behaviour disturbances.

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Behaviour Change , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 53 - 57
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1986

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