A Historical Study of Student Discipline in the Public High School

FAIN: GY-10419-76

Barbara J. Tucker
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To develop an overview of the concept, practice, and impact of discipline in the public high school from 1890-present in order to clarify the role of discipline in schooling; add to current attempts to understand the continuity with the past underlying today’s school crises; to apply this understanding to examining and dealing with the violence and alienation increasingly evinced in student’s school behavior.