corporal panishment
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
Volume 15, Issue 6 (Sep. - Oct. 2013), PP 57-61 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.Iosrjournals.Org Implications of corporal punishment on primary school children
Shukla Jyoti* & Singh Neetu**
Research Scholar* & Asst. Professor**
Department of Human Development & Family Studies School for Home Sciences
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow-226025 Uttar Pradesh, India
Abstract: The use of corporal punishment at home and school has been widely debated. Some believe it is a means of discipline while others call it abuse. Corporal punishment is harmful to children. It could lead to emotional and physical problems. Corporal punishment is so readily at hand that it discourages some teachers from trying alternatives .Corporal punishment is one teacher-child interaction harmful to children. Corporal punishment inhibits learning, interferes with the accomplishment of each of the important developmental tasks of children and their teachers, and has the potential for physical harm to the child. Corporal punishment should be considered as child abuse and prohibited in all our schools.
Key words: corporal punishment, emotional problem, physical problem.
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Introduction
Corporal punishment refers to intentional application of physical pain as method of behavior change. It includes a wide variety of methods such as hitting, slapping, spanking, punching, kicking, pinching, shaking, shoving, choking, use of various objects (i.e., wooden paddles, belts, sticks, pins, or others), painful body postures (such as placing in closed spaces), use of electric shock, use of excessive exercise drills, or prevention of urine or stool elimination. The majority of children have experienced physical punishment by the time they reach adolescence ( Ritchie 1981).
(McGrath1999) claimed that corporal punishment is an assault on the dignity of individual and offensive act against the dignity of
Volume 15, Issue 6 (Sep. - Oct. 2013), PP 57-61 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.Iosrjournals.Org Implications of corporal punishment on primary school children
Shukla Jyoti* & Singh Neetu**
Research Scholar* & Asst. Professor**
Department of Human Development & Family Studies School for Home Sciences
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow-226025 Uttar Pradesh, India
Abstract: The use of corporal punishment at home and school has been widely debated. Some believe it is a means of discipline while others call it abuse. Corporal punishment is harmful to children. It could lead to emotional and physical problems. Corporal punishment is so readily at hand that it discourages some teachers from trying alternatives .Corporal punishment is one teacher-child interaction harmful to children. Corporal punishment inhibits learning, interferes with the accomplishment of each of the important developmental tasks of children and their teachers, and has the potential for physical harm to the child. Corporal punishment should be considered as child abuse and prohibited in all our schools.
Key words: corporal punishment, emotional problem, physical problem.
I.
Introduction
Corporal punishment refers to intentional application of physical pain as method of behavior change. It includes a wide variety of methods such as hitting, slapping, spanking, punching, kicking, pinching, shaking, shoving, choking, use of various objects (i.e., wooden paddles, belts, sticks, pins, or others), painful body postures (such as placing in closed spaces), use of electric shock, use of excessive exercise drills, or prevention of urine or stool elimination. The majority of children have experienced physical punishment by the time they reach adolescence ( Ritchie 1981).
(McGrath1999) claimed that corporal punishment is an assault on the dignity of individual and offensive act against the dignity of
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