Undermining Learning
Multi-Country Longitudinal Evidence on Corporal Punishment in Schools

Publication date: 2016-06E
Publication series:
Innocenti Research Briefs
No. of pages: 5
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Abstract
Although it is often legally prohibited, the use of physical violence for discipline is a well-established norm in many communities, both at home and at school. Corporal punishment is often part of a wider problem of violence in schools, which includes other forms of humiliating punishment from teachers, peer bullying and gender-based violence. Violence in schools, including physical and verbal abuse by teachers and peers, is the foremost reason children aged 8 give for disliking school.