Controlling Our Children Hegemony and Deconstructing the Positive Behavioral Intervention Support Model

"Controlling Our Children provides a critical analysis of our current educational system with regard to how to best meet the needs of all students in a socially just way. By disrupting the hegemonic discourse on behavioral interventions, and the related aspects of control, Thomas David Knestrict interrogates an accepted and ubiquitous system to ask the difficult questions about how we are helping and hurting students. Not one to shy away from challenging the status quo, Knestrict takes the important subsequent step of providing hope by offering more socially just alternatives. This is an essential read for anyone working in-and with-schools today and should be a required text for all pre-service and in-service teachers." -Laney Bender-Slack, Xavier University