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Teaching and control are always issues or contemporary importance in schools. In this programme, Andy Hargreaves of the Open University examines the relationship between teaching and discipline in... the classroom. He shows that there are three distinct ways of organising a class: in the first, teaching is always distinct from discipline; in the second, certain actions by the teacher may be viewed as either teaching or control; and in the third, teaching acts are indistinguishable from discipline acts. Classroom film illustrates each of these categories.
Teaching and control are always issues or contemporary importance in schools. In this programme, Andy Hargreaves of the Open University examines the relationship between teaching and discipline in... the classroom. He shows that there are three distinct ways of organising a class: in the first, teaching is always distinct from discipline; in the second, certain actions by the teacher may be viewed as either teaching or control; and in the third, teaching acts are indistinguishable from discipline acts. Classroom film illustrates each of these categories.
| Module code and title: | E200, Contemporary issues in education |
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| Item code: | E200; 07 |
| First transmission date: | 02-05-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:22:58 |
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| Producer: | Nick Brenton |
| Contributor: | Andy Hargreaves |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Control; Discipline; Teaching |
| Footage description: | The programme opens with five parents giving their views on the kind of discipline applied to their children at school. From the studio, and using graphics boards, Andy Hargreaves describes three methods of combining teaching with control or discipline, and explains that the programme will look at classroom examples of each of these. The first example concerns a secondary school class in which the teacher separates control from teaching: the two activities are clearly recognisable and distinct. The rather unruly class are participating in a discussion of the problems of hijacking. From the studio Hargreaves discussed the specific instances of control that occurred in the lesson we have just observed. Replays of two sequences from the lesson are shown, and five times the picture freezes and captions are displayed identifying different techniques used by the teacher to control the children's behaviour. Hargreaves describes his second category of control, where it is often closely linked to teaching methods. We see four excerpts from lessons that fall into this category: a traditional primary school arithmetic lesson; a formal secondary school maths lesson; a Latin class in a public school; an informal middle school science lesson. Hargreaves comments briefly on the foregoing examples, and then introduces his third category of control: where it is indistinguishable from teaching itself. We observe two teachers at work in a large, very informal primary school class, where each child is engaged in a different activity. The children make constant demands upon the teachers' attention. Hargreaves considers the instances of control occurring in the previous sequence. Two pieces from the sequence are replayed to enable identification of instances of control. After Hargreaves brief review of the programme, a final short extract from a primary school class concludes. |
| Master spool number: | OU3442 |
| Production number: | FOUE031S |
| Videofinder number: | 523 |
| Available to public: | no |
