Elton (1989)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Contents, Foreword, Membership, Summary
Recommendations
Chapter 1 The enquiry
Chapter 2 The nature of the problem
Chapter 3 Teachers
Chapter 4 Schools
Chapter 5 Parents
Chapter 6 Pupils
Chapter 7 Attendance
Chapter 8 Police
Chapter 9 Governors
Chapter 10 Local education authorities
Chapter 11 Government
Appendix A Written evidence received
Appendix B Witnesses
Appendix C Visits
Appendix D(i) Teachers and Discipline Part I
Appendix D(ii) Teachers and Discipline Part II
Appendix E Selected bibliography
Appendix F Behaviour policies

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1989
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

ISBN 0 11 270665 7

Notes on the text

The full text of the report (including the Appendices) is online.

Recommendations
The report's Recommendations were set out on double pages, with the recommendations listed on the left-hand page and a table showing those to whom the recommendations applied on the right-hand page. This layout would be very difficult to reproduce on a web page, so I have rendered it thus:

R1 Teachers and their trainers should recognise and apply the principles of good classroom management. (T; TT; 3.28)

Similarly, in the print version of the report references to recommendations were shown as black boxes printed alongside the text. I have rendered these as bold type, thus:

32 We recommend that initial teacher training establishments should give full weight to the personal qualities required for effective classroom management, particularly the potential ability to relate well to children, when selecting applicants. (R2)

Miscellaneous
Every web page includes chapter links (as in the left hand column on this page) and there are links to the next and previous chapters at the bottom of each page.

Anything I've added by way of explanation is shown [in square brackets].

I've corrected a couple of dozen misprints and have proof-read and spell-checked the text, but if you spot any errors I'd be grateful if you'd email me.

Other than the above, what you see here is what appeared in the original print version of the report.