More difficult still is the suggestion that repeated punishment during adolescence might influence later emotional or intimate life. Here...
No discussion of traditional British discipline proceeds very far before the public schools enter it. The image is familiar:...
What perhaps separates yesterday’s school most sharply from that of tomorrow is not the cane itself but the attitude...
It would be convenient to conclude either that corporal punishment caused lasting harm or that it caused none. The...
Educational history has generally been written in terms of Acts of Parliament, examinations, buildings, famous headmasters and changing methods...
Over the past few months, an informal research project has been under way examining recollections of school corporal punishment...
At the present stage of the investigation: Schools examined: 695Schools where corporal punishment was reported: 508Schools where no such...
Thirteen schools in Northern Ireland have so far been examined. Of these: 10 schools contained reports of corporal punishment3...
Twenty-seven Welsh schools were examined. The results were: 17 schools with reported corporal punishment9 schools without reports The material...
Historical recollections are rarely written with the precision of official documents. A former pupil may say simply that he...
A school might begin as a secondary modern, later become comprehensive, merge with another institution, or eventually reopen under...
The question of reliability inevitably arises. One useful form of verification is what might be called peer confirmation. If...