Strategies Other Than Corporal Punishment And Learning Environment: The Case Of District Mirpur, AJ&K

Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has been making efforts to develop awareness in teachers to control the corporal punishment in the school which has been banned around the world for decades. This survey aimed to access the level of awareness of teachers about the ban on corporal punishment and methods of discipline they see as effective by applying the stratified sampling technique to select 400 respondents. The data was collected through questionnaire that was analyzed by employing Independent Sample Mann-Whitney U Test and one-sample Kolmogorov- Simonov test in SPSS. The study found that abolition of corporal punishment creates environment of learning and positive relationship between student and teacher. The study recommended to add ban on Corporal Punishment in Dastur-e-Amal, a training guide to teachers and available in every school by Boards of Education.