Chapter 1 Introduction: Why It Is Important to Answer Back

Chapter 2 Daring to Disagree About School ‘Discipline’: An Australian Case Study of a Media-Led Backlash

Chapter 3 Understanding and Challenging Dominant Discourses About Student Behaviour at School

Chapter 4 Promoting Pedagogies of Engagement in Secondary Schools: Possibilities for Pedagogical Reform

Chapter 5 Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Dr Phil?

Chapter 6 Rethinking Mis/Behaviour in Schools: From ‘Youth as a Problem’ to the ‘Relational School’

Chapter 7 Reframing ‘Behaviour’ in Schools: The Role of Recognition in Improving Student Wellbeing

Chapter 8 ‘Schoolwork’ and ‘Teachers’: Disaffected Boys Talk About Their Problems with School

Chapter 9 Beyond the ‘Habits’ of ‘Punishing, Criticising and Nagging’: Fostering Respectful and Socially Just Student Relations Using Critical Pedagogies

Chapter 11 Against the Tide: Enacting Respectful Student Behaviour Polices in ‘Zero Tolerance’ Times

Chapter 12 ‘Answering Back’: Some Concluding Thoughts