Is there any point in wearing dead men's spectacles? How the theoretical insights of Adler and colleagues relate to current practice with children experiencing EBD

This article explores the legacy of Adlerian approaches to behaviour. Mike Blamires offers an opportunity to consider the impact of Adler's premise that education is fundamentally about encouragement and the promotion of democratic principles. In so doing he challenges us to interrogate the term ‘behaviour management’, and its current use by policy‐makers. The article clearly maps the need for the consistent application of positive approaches regarding children's behaviour.     

Modes of Response: some interactions between reader and literature

Literary response is a complex activity. I begin with D. W. Harding's comments about reading literature:
Any but the most naive kind of reading puts us into implicit relation with an author. A novelist (or a playwright) may be directing our attention mainly to the action and experience of his characters and part of our job is to enter imaginatively into them. But he is at the same time conveying his own evaluation of what is done and felt, presenting it (to mention simpler possibilities) as heroic, pathetic, contemptible, charming, funny…and implicitly inviting us to share his attitude. Our task as readers is not complete unless we tacitly evaluate his evaluation, endorsing it fully, rejecting it, but more probably feeling some less clear cut attitude, based on discriminations achieved or groped after. ('The Bond with the Author', Use of English , 22.4, Summer 1971)