Models of Classroom Management: Principles, Practices and Critical Considerations

by Jack Martin, John McNamara

Studies indicate that teachers spend as much as half their time in the classroom organizing students for instruction, dealing with misbehaviour and handling individual problems. Researchers have also found that student behaviour and discipline are now the most serious concerns among American and Canadian educators.

Authors Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman and John McNamara want to help teachers take back control of the classroom. They provide the latest research and theories around effective classroom management, while challenging teachers to think critically about how to adapt these principles to the unique circumstances of their classrooms.

Each chapter deals with a different approach to classroom management, including those based on interpersonal communication, principles of democratic interaction, group management, behaviour modification and cognitive psychology. The third edition of this classic text contains new material that considers the changing face of educational theory and practice in an increasingly diverse society.

Genres: Psychology

Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

Jack Martin began as an educational and counselling psychologist, and he spent many years as a researcher of counselling and psychotherapy. By mid-career, he became devoted to the history and theory of psychology and psychiatry. At the end of 2018, he retired from his position as Burnaby Mountain Chair of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian and American Psychological Associations, former President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (STPP), lead editor of the Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and recipient of the STPP’s Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Much of his later career work has focused on the psychology of personhood and the psycho-biographical study of individual lives.

After publishing scholarly books throughout his career, in his retirement he has turned to writing nonfiction for a general audience. His first book of this kind was Hometown Asylum: A History and Memoir of Institutional Care, in which he tells the story of the large psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of his hometown of Ponoka, Alberta where his father was employed, his grandmother was a patient, and he worked as an institutional attendant while completing his degrees in psychology at the University of Alberta. Peter & Pierre is a dual biography of Peter Lougheed and Pierre Elliott Trudeau that draws on long-standing interests in psychobiography and political history.