Observations of teachers in llorin, Nigeria on their practices of corporal punishment that are potentially injurious to their pupils' eyes
Objective: To document the observations of elementary school teachers (ESTs) in Ilorin, Nigeria on their practice of some types of corporal punishment (CP) that could result in eye injuries among their pupils. Materials and Methods: A short battery of questions that explored ESTs′ observations on at...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Annals of African medicine 2011-04, Vol.10 (2), p.150 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Objective: To document the observations of elementary school teachers
(ESTs) in Ilorin, Nigeria on their practice of some types of corporal
punishment (CP) that could result in eye injuries among their pupils.
Materials and Methods: A short battery of questions that explored
ESTs′ observations on attitudes to, and knowledge of some
commonly used CP practices was self-administered on 172 consenting
teachers from six sampled schools. The potentials for their pupils to
sustain eye injuries while receiving such CP practices were inferred
from the usage of items with sharp and protruding ends to administer
CP, and the application of CP onto pupils′ body parts that are in
close proximity to the eye such as the head and face. Results: Only 50
of the 172 ESTs favored the practice of CP of pupils by their teachers.
Analyses of several potentially moderating variables on this response
such as ESTs′ ages, years of EST teaching experience, school, and
class or grade that EST teaches did not prove significant. Over
three-quarters of ESTs (80.2%) had ever observed that pupils were being
disciplined by ESTs with a cane. About a fifth of them had also
observed that ESTs applied CP to the head (19.8%) and the face (16.3%)
of pupils. Conclusion: Findings suggest that ESTs′ commonly
employed CP practices have significant injurious potential to their
pupils′ eyes. It is recommended that CP be abolished in
elementary schools, and instead alternative nonabusive methods of
disciplining erring pupils by teachers be introduced. |
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ISSN: | 1596-3519 0975-5764 |
DOI: | 10.4103/1596-3519.82075 |