A Critique of Externally Oriented Behavior Management Approaches as Applied to Exceptional Black Children.

Autor/in	Patton, James M.
Titel	A Critique of Externally Oriented Behavior Management Approaches as Applied to Exceptional Black Children.
Quelle	(1981), (10 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Stellungnahme; Behavior Change; Behavior Problems; Black Students; Contingency Management; Disabilities; Elementary Secondary Education; Negative Reinforcement; Punishment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Krisenbewältigung; Handicap; Behinderung; Negative Verstärkung; Bestrafung
Abstract	The paper looks at philosophical, heuristic, and practical reasons why behavior management approaches have failed to positively impact on the lives of exceptional Black children. Critiqued are behavior modification techniques, contingency management strategies, suspensions, expulsions, and positive and negative reinforcement. Noted among the problems with such methods are the determination of what constitutes a discipline problem, the tendency of teachers to use approaches as control tactics rather than teaching students to become self directing individuals, and transferrance of negative reinforcers outside the academic setting thus inhibiting the life long maturation of exceptional Black children. It is stressed that the teacher's role must be viewed within the context of facilitating self direction and control on the part of the student and not within the traditional authoritarian context of acting as an agent of control. (SB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01