This is a good discussion of the concept of consequences. It all sounds behaviorist at first, with a typology of different sorts of formal and informal consequences, but Julian Stodd also introduces the notion of projected consequences, which are those consequences a person might imagine are the case, but may or may not actually be the case. He also makes the point that people trust the experience of consequences much more than the description of consequences. He argues, "our challenge (as educators) is to create the conditions for learning in which the application of consequence is clear, but also consistent." We may control the rules, but we don't really control the social side of it, and we certainly don't control projected consequences.
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