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Care or Neglect?: Corporal Discipline Reform in a Rural Moroccan Classroom
Author(s) -
El Ouardani Christine Nutter
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12243
Subject(s) - corporal punishment , neglect , punishment (psychology) , state (computer science) , criminology , sociology , child neglect , political science , suicide prevention , poison control , psychology , social psychology , child abuse , medicine , environmental health , algorithm , psychiatry , computer science
I examine parent, student, and teacher reactions in a rural Moroccan village to a national ban on corporal punishment in schools. I argue that although the ban has largely been ignored in the local primary school, talk about acts of corporal punishment are used to make claims about the relationship between rural citizen and state as represented by the teachers because of the way in which these practices index care and authority.