Promoting positive behaviour can only occur in a mutually responsive learning environment that offers whole learning to a whole child within a whole school. This book provides a practitioner's perspective on how schools can promote positive behaviour among those pupils who experience learning difficulties and present challenging behaviour. It places a focus upon the learning needs of such children in a climate where the separation of behaviour and learning has begun to limit their opportunities for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. The spiritual context of a child, within the curriculum and beyond it, is considered.

This book also details strategies and approaches for promoting positive behaviour so that teachers and pupils can stay in a learning zone and keep out of the battle zone. Finally, the book highlights the needs of staff who adopt a consistently positive approach in a potentially stressful working environment - teachers have needs too. This book reflects the eclectic nature of education and has one major aim - to improve the quality of teaching and learning for those children who find learning a challenge.