By half-past seven, the youngsters had made their way through the darkened streets towards Keere Street. The little cottage...
It was a bitterly cold Friday evening in the ancient Sussex town of Lewes. The autumn wind whistled through...
Corporal punishment occupied a significant place in the disciplinary life of many British schools during the years examined in...
The principal findings of this study may now be brought together. First: Practice Varied Enormously There was no uniform...
The temptation when writing about school punishment is to concentrate upon the dramatic. That would produce a distorted history....
By the opening years of the 1970s, corporal punishment remained familiar in many of the schools represented in this...
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...