Open AccessAttitudes of Stakeholders Towards Physical Punishment on Pupils of International and National Schools in Kampala District, Uganda
Author(s) -
Mbikyo Mulinga Damien
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v2n1p96
Subject(s) - punishment (psychology) , psychology , action (physics) , order (exchange) , class (philosophy) , social psychology , law , pedagogy , political science , economics , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science
A punishment is an action that makes somebody suffer because of breaking the law or doing something wrong. It is a penalty for misbehavior with the intention of shaming a child in order to make him/her a counter productive. It is a deliberated infliction of pain intended to correct or punish. In schools, physical punishment is used as a corrective measure in order to guide the child. The cane was the common tool used for correcting the child. This cane was called light cane or junior cane which was always present in class in Asia, Europe and the European colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries, to be administered to young school children.