Final Year Project

Project Title

Behavior Management in the Classroom: A Case Study of Teachers’ Practices in Karachi

Description

This honour’s thesis presents a case study of student behavioural profiling and behavioural/classroom management in Pakistan. This research discusses the ways in which selected educators with a minimum of ten years of experience, working in a middle-class community-based school, perceive, analyze and contend with student behaviour in a classroom setting. This was achieved by specifically looking at explicit and implicit forms of behaviour profiling and the strategies employed by the teachers in their attempts to manage the behaviours of their students. Drawing on primary research findings and a thorough literature review, this research explores how students may be explicitly or implicitly profiled and labelled in a classroom, and whether teachers’ strategies are appropriately responsive to the challenges posed by the need to motivate but also discipline students. Finally, support strategies and suggestions to further promote positive classroom dynamics are examined.