Word On The Street - Corporal Punishment
Punishing pupils for bad behaviour with humiliation or by administering corporal punishment only aggravates disciplinary problems at schools, a new research paper has suggested
What was required at schools was an approach to discipline which considered the personal circumstances and needs of children, a senior social work lecturer at the University of the Free State, Roelf Reyneke, argued in his paper.
The work, published in the latest issue of the Perspectives in Education Journal, explained that children brought the social ills they were exposed to in their communities into their…
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