Attitude of Youth towards Corporal Punishment – A Case of Karachi

Lodhi, Prof. Dr. Memoona Saeed; Siddiqui, Prof. Dr. Jawaid Ahmed

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“…Although corporal punishment is often justified by its perpetrators who claim that is being done with good intentions (Cheruvalath & Tripathi, 2015), numerous studies, including longitudinal surveys by sociologists and meta-analyses of similar studies, conclude that corporal punishment does not always produce the intended effects (Gershoff, 2010;Nakpodia, 2012;Straus, 2001). Scholarly evidence shows that, instead of being a tool to assist teaching/learning and discipline, corporal punishment by educators was an ineffective discipline method and had major deleterious effects on the mental and physical health of the children on whom it is inflicted for correction purposes (Gershoff, 2010;Greydanus, 2003;Portela & Pells, 2015).…”

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Educators’ experiences of corporal punishment: a case study of selected secondary schools in Eswatini.

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Prompted by the escalating number of criminal cases against educators for severe corporal punishment and injury inflicted on learners, this study aimed to understand why educators persist with corporal punishment. Corporal punishment in Eswatini schools persists despite its proscription following Eswatini’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Guided by the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a theoretical framework, working within an interpretive paradigm, this qualitative study employed open-ended questionnaires administered to purposively selected educators from different types of schools in the four regions of the country. This was followed by two focus group discussions (FGDs) to validate and acquire an in-depth understanding of the data that were generated via the questionnaires. The data generated was used to understand why educators persist with corporal punishment. The main objectives were: to explore the experiences of educators relating to the use of corporal punishment to discipline learners in schools, to understand why educators persist with corporal punishment in schools despite its proscription, and to determine how educators maintain discipline and ensure an environment conducive to teaching and learning using less drastic disciplinary techniques. Following a thematic analysis of the data, the findings revealed that educators justify their persistent use of corporal punishment at three levels, namely social, political, and pedagogic levels. The findings further revealed that the educators have created their own amalgam of culturally influenced blended discipline to continue inflicting corporal punishment on learners. The study recommends that educator training institutions should follow the Education for Effective Classroom Management (ETCM) Model in educator training and include a module that specifically deals with issues of discipline. The institutions should also emphasise lifelong learning in educator service workshops to enable educators to meet the evolving demands of their profession.

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Section: Unintended Effects Of Corporal Punishmentmentioning

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Educators’ experiences of corporal punishment: a case study of selected secondary schools in Eswatini.

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Attitude of Youth towards Corporal Punishment – A Case of Karachi

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Educators’ experiences of corporal punishment: a case study of selected secondary schools in Eswatini.

Educators’ experiences of corporal punishment: a case study of selected secondary schools in Eswatini.

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