Contradiction, Paradox and Irony: The World of Classroom Management

This is a thoughtful essay on classroom management by Barbara McEwan Landau.  It's an excerpt from the chapter “Contradiction, Paradox, and Irony: The World of Classroom Management", in Butchart, R. and McEwan, B. Ed.’s, Classroom Discipline in American Schools: Problems and Possibilities for Democratic Education, 1998, Albany NY: SUNY Press.