This identifies the problem that much current practice emphasises assessment of learning rather than assessment for learning and so misses opportunities to use assessment to improve learning and raise standards. It describes key factors needed to put assessment for learning into place. This explores issues of discipline in school within the framework of children's rights. It traces the history of corporal punishment in schools and its abolition in terms of law and practice.
Litigation upholding teacher authority is reviewed.
Alternatives to corporal punishment, classroom strategies which do not contravene children's rights and concerns over unruly pupils and indiscipline among the young are discussed. 4 Essays discussing the implications of research on lifelong learning for policy. Also the findings of the Programme's commissioned survey of the skills of a representative sample of British workers. This discusses philosophical issues involved in improving education such as empiricism, postmodernism, fallibilism and realism and highlights the usefulness in educational contexts of the philosophy of Karl Popper. This leads to a number of case studies in which these ideas are applied.