The debate surrounding disciplinary practices in British schools has, in recent years, prompted renewed examination of methods once regarded...
Recent examination of disciplinary practices in British schools during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s has drawn renewed attention to...
As I mentioned previously, their private convent school employed no corporal punishment during the 1960s. Around 1968, her younger...
During the 1950s and 1960s, attitudes toward corporal punishment in British schools and homes varied considerably according to region,...
What emerges from these recollections is less a picture of formally regulated SCP than of highly individualised classroom cultures,...
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the term “lower school” at my grammar school referred to the first...
In a number of recollections concerning school discipline, it appears that many female pupils were subjected to corporal punishment,...
There remains some uncertainty as to whether corporal punishment administered to girls upon the buttocks constituted standard practice at...
The late 1940s and early 1950s now seem like a different moral universe. Modern Britain tends to interpret childhood...
Ann, born in 1947, received the strap across an unspecified part of the body from a female teacher between...
Accounts from Greenfield Primary School in Oldham, previously circulated though now difficult to trace to their original publication, appear...
Birley High School (Secondary), Manchester. Clarksfield School (Secondary), Oldham. Counthill School (Secondary), Oldham. Evidently, the strap was commonly used...