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 classrooms.
