This book should appeal to a wide variety of readers. Teachers of all ages will find that many of the issues discussed will resonate with their own classroom experiences, while those on the margins of teaching, or even those interested in social and political theory, will find a great deal of intellectual nourishment - not to mention challenges - within the book. Firstly, one should not mistake this as some sort of 'how-to' guide for managing unruly classrooms. The book does not so much seek to solve problems insomuch as it seeks to problematize issues of discipline in education. Furthermore, the authors in the book come at the problem of discipline from a great many number of angles. Do not expect debates about corporal punishment and such; be prepared to consider how discipline operates in educational environments such as the dojo, and international relations theory can disrupt commonsense assumptions pertaining to children as 'citizens' of a school community.