The limitations should not obscure the richness of the material. Taken together, the accounts provide an unusually detailed picture...
A responsible survey must consider not only its evidence but its absences. There are several important limitations. Pupils Who...
If one theme deserves to stand above all others in this survey, it is fairness. Former pupils frequently judged...
Another question naturally follows. If punishment worked, did greater severity make it work better? The survey provides little support...
Throughout this survey one question has appeared repeatedly: Did the punishment prevent the pupil from committing the offence again?...
At this point the Corporal Punishment Survey has examined one hundred aspects of school discipline. The evidence has ranged...
Teachers sometimes spoke of punishment not merely as a means of stopping misconduct but as a means of developing...
Many apparently different offences share one common element: disobedience. The pupil had been told what to do—or what not...
The survey contains several examples in which schoolwork itself became a disciplinary issue. These cases reveal the close relationship...
Academic dishonesty presented schools with a different problem. The offence did not necessarily disturb a lesson or endanger anybody....
Smoking provides another example of behaviour which schools regarded as serious, particularly among younger pupils. A respondent aged twelve...
Truancy was regarded considerably more seriously than ordinary classroom misbehaviour. The reason is obvious. The pupil had deliberately removed...