TY - BOOK AU - Denscombe,Martyn TI - Classroom control: a sociological perspective SN - 9780415809566 U1 - 371.1024 DEN PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Classroom management KW - Classroom environment N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Vol. 170 N2 - Survival as a school teacher depends on an ability to achieve classroom control. In the years since this book was first published little has changed in this respect. Classroom control continues to lie at the heart of competent teaching. Teachers know it, pupils know it. They know it implicitly because they experience it as a normal part of their daily lives in schools. But, in this book, the author stands back from our everyday knowledge about how things work in classrooms to ask what control actually consists of. What is it? How is it recognized? How is it challenged by pupils? How is done by. ER -