student and teacher perspectives on choice theory as transformative education: an alternative secondary school context
abstract
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who are considered to be “disruptive” or otherwise “deficient”
in the eyes of mainstream education are sent to have their behaviour “corrected.” some teachers
talk about the prospect of working in alternative education as career suicide. although both of
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and teachers. quite the opposite picture emerges at the
alternative school that is the subject of this study. the researcher interviewed seven teachers and
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for their perspectives on the transformative potential of a local option course
based around control theory, a philosophy of self-help and institutional organization that was
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and teachers in their own
words. it also offers a view of how a school culture of positive transformation can be nurtured
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commented on the life-changing influence of being
part of the school culture and teachers expressed a high level of job satisfaction and increased
perceptions of happiness and personal growth through both being trained in control theory and
by being immersed in the culture of the school. this information has the potential to inform
administrators and teachers in both alternative and mainstream schools as to how to craft
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