Elton (1989)

(page numbers in brackets)

Preliminary pages (1-18)
Contents, Foreword, Membership, Summary
Recommendations (20-53)

Chapter 1 (54-56)
The Enquiry
Chapter 2 (57-66)
The Nature of the Problem
Chapter 3 (67-87)
Teachers
Chapter 4 (88-132)
Schools
Chapter 5 (133-141)
Parents
Chapter 6 (142-164)
Pupils
Chapter 7 (165-169)
Attendance
Chapter 8 (170-171)
Police
Chapter 9 (172-177)
Governors
Chapter 10 (178-194)
Local Education Authorities
Chapter 11 (195-203)
Government

Appendix A (205-210)
Written evidence received
Appendix B (211-212)
Witnesses
Appendix C (213-214)
Visits
Appendix D (215-280)
Teachers and Discipline
Appendix E (281-282)
Selected bibliography
Appendix F (283-292)
Behaviour policies

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1989
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Notes on the text

The full text of the report (including the Appendices) is online.

I've corrected a couple of dozen misprints. Anything I've added by way of explanation is shown [in square brackets].

The formatting of the text (bold, italics, centred etc) is a reasonably accurate representation of the original. However, there are four differences between the printed version and this web version:

1. The section headings shown in CAPITALS were printed in blue.

2. The sub-section headings printed in Lower case bold were also in blue and were in the page margins. I have incorporated these into the body of the text.

3. The Recommendations (pages 20-53) were set out on double pages, with the recommendations listed on the left-hand page and a table showing those to whom the recommendations applied on the right-hand page. (You can see an image of pages 20-21 as an example here).

This layout would be difficult to reproduce on a web page, so I have rendered it thus:

R1 Teachers and their trainers should recognise and apply the principles of good classroom management. (T; TT; 3.28)

4. In the main body of the report, recommendations were printed in blue. I have left them in black, but they are always followed by the number of the recommendation to which they refer in bold, for example:

32 We recommend that initial teacher training establishments should give full weight to the personal qualities required for effective classroom management, particularly the potential ability to relate well to children, when selecting applicants. (R2)