The official report spoke of the need to ensure positive discipline and learning reinforcement was the central focus of practical discipline, and the necessity to avoid at all costs any ‘ blanket’ or broad brush sanctions in the teaching situation, bad behavior needed to be pinpointed to the perpetrators. general classroom discipline was a skill encapsulated in the reinforcement elements of pedagogy.

This agenda still is central to much British teacher education today . You might wish to draw some cause and effect. I couldn’t possibly comment !!!

Incidentally, when I get the time , I intend to explore the concurrent position in US education in a posting more appropriately on the TWP thread, which may interest you .