Abstract: This study examined the corporal punishment and discipline in higher secondary schools. The subjects consisted of 100 teachers from two government and two private schools of the Nadia district at the higher secondary level. The principle purpose of the study is to find out attitude of teachers (Govt. and private) towards Corporal Punishment as a means of discipline in the higher secondary schools. In this study opinion of the school teachers on Corporal punishment as a means of discipline has been studied in relation to gender and management variation. It is an Expost- facto type as the Current status of phenomena what exist at present as been considered. In this study a standardized tool of structured questionnaire was used. This tool have five dimension-classroom condition, Corporal Punishment as a means of discipline maintenance, use of corporal punishment to male and female child, Role of home and Society, and impact of Corporal punishment on children. The scale was used in this study is the five point rating scale. The data were analyzed with the help of t-test. The result shows that there is no significant difference of views regarding Corporal punishment and discipline between the higher secondary school teachers due to gender variation, but there exist significant difference of views regarding corporal punishment and discipline between the higher secondary school teachers due to management variation.
Keywords: Corporal punishment, Discipline, Violence, Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse, The Zero Tolerance.
Title: Corporal Punishment & Discipline in Higher Secondary School
Author: Sourav Kumar Roy
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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