L'école est un espace d'apprentissage, de socialisation et de formation citoyenne. Pour en assurer le bon fonctionnement, les établissements scolaires appliquent des règlements d'ordre intérieur définissant les règles de conduite et les sanctions disciplinaires. Toutefois, ces mesures doivent respecter l'intérêt supérieur et les droits fondamentaux de l'enfant. À partir d'une analyse des règlements en vigueur dans les écoles secondaires publiques et privées de Kisangani, cet ouvrage met en lumière les tensions entre discipline scolaire et protection des droits de l'enfant. Il montre que certaines sanctions demeurent incompatibles avec la dignité humaine, les principes pédagogiques modernes et les normes juridiques nationales et internationales. Fondée sur une approche juridique associant analyse normative, enquête de terrain et étude des pratiques scolaires, cette recherche met en évidence des violations institutionnalisées des droits de l'enfant, en examine les causes, les manifestations et les effets. Elle propose enfin des réformes juridiques, pédagogiques et institutionnelles pour promouvoir une discipline scolaire respectueuse des droits de l'enfant en République Démocratique du Congo.

"Blackcock's Feather" is about a man who overtook a garrison and went off with twenty fiery haired maidens and bloodily killed soldiers to get them or so the story goes. Blackcock's Feather is a man with a hatchet face, sullen look and sword at the ready.

A folk legend, beautifully retold, with a modern swing and pace at no sacrifice of the artifices and the glamor of the old tale. It is a hero-yarn, a sort of Irish Jack, the Giant Killer / Beauty and the Beast all rolled into one.

The book follows the misadventures of Thomasheen James, an "engaging and amusing vagabond" and rogue from Wicklow. The character was based on a real-life figure named Tom O'Gorman, a colorful "man of the road" who worked as a handyman and gardener for Walsh.

This is a very Irish and poetic work of prose from a great writer little read these days. The story is based on ancient Irish hero tales, particularily 'The Hostel of Da Derga'. It is a very simple but engaging tale of four brothers, sons of a swordmaker, living in Gaul around the time of Christ. Each brother is different and unique as are their fates. There is a magic in the writing that is unusual, a poetic turn of phrase and a feel for the strangeness of life. It is essentially an ancient heroic tale about the fascination men have with female beauty and the beauty of valour and heroic name, yet it exposes both for the tragic cost that both can entail.

Martin Somers, surgeon and adjutant of women in O'Cahan's Irish regiment fighting for Montrose, is a better swordsman than surgeon. In his adventurous wardship of this ill-fated company of women, Martin finds excitement and danger in war-torn Scotland from his first encounter with the enemy-the grim-faced Covenanters with their terrible rallying cry `Jesus and no quarter!' Here is a tale of keen endeavour set against the vivid background of the battle-scarred Highlands in the seventeenth century. Martin faces great peril and pursues romance at a furious pace which keeps the reader enthralled to the last page.

Here once more is the Walsh of The Small Dark Man and The Road to Nowhere. Stephen Wayne of Montana and Renny Alpin of the Highlands of Scotland hatch a plot at the Algonquin bar, and the following holidays find Wayne carrying out his part of the agreement by turning up to view the croft he has inherited from his Scotch grandmother. Straightway, he becomes involved-romantically with every pretty girl that crosses his path, and adventurously speaking with the poaching activities of his "caretaker", one Farquar, and with the manoeuvres to keep the old Laird from revealing his encroaching madness to the outside world. Coincidence and circumstances cross wires and Wayne has an adventurous holiday withal. Grand entertainment, a good story against the background of the Highlands as Walsh can so hauntingly portray them.