I 'm undertaking an Open University module on youth justice and am looking for any academic references to golden time - can you help?
Formal research papers into Golden Time are not easy to find. Jenny Mosley and Helen Sonnet published a book last year entitled "Better Behaviour through Golden Time" - mainly aimed at primary education but with plenty of anecdotal evidence and theoretical explanation. As I mentioned, there are few academic 'formal research' references to Golden Time, although you will find that if you break the system down into its components - like providing behavioural guidelines by linking Golden Time with the Golden Rules, a system of incentives and sanctions, helping to boost children's self-esteem, creating a whole-school positive behaviour system that children understand, making it visual using photos of activities to choose and using warning cards and many other ideas, then you will I'm sure find references to these ideas.
Golden Time is a synthesis of Jenny's and many, many teachers' experiences within the classroom, underpinned by sound theoretical explanation.
Many of the Quality Circle Time-related research papers that we have had access to are mentioned or an abstract provided for on this website under the "Research and Reports" section - it would be worth looking there. Otherwise - can anyone else help with this enquiry? It might also be worth looking under our Q&A section.
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