Mahmoud Abdulraheem Olarongbe, Ayanniyi Abdulkabir Ayansiji, Salman Medinat Folorunso
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Abuja, Nigeria.
Ann Afr Med. 2011 Apr-Jun;10(2):150-4. doi: 10.4103/1596-3519.82075.
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.
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.
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.
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.
记录尼日利亚伊洛林地区小学教师（ESTs）对某些可能导致学生眼部受伤的体罚行为的观察情况。
对来自六所抽样学校的172名同意参与的教师进行了一项简短的问卷调查，该问卷探讨了ESTs对一些常用体罚行为的态度和认知。通过使用带有尖锐和突出端部的物品进行体罚，以及将体罚施加于学生靠近眼睛的身体部位（如头部和面部），推断学生在接受此类体罚时眼睛受伤的可能性。
172名ESTs中只有50人赞成教师对学生进行体罚。对该回应的几个潜在调节变量（如ESTs的年龄、EST教学经验年限、学校以及EST所教授的班级或年级）进行分析，结果并不显著。超过四分之三的ESTs（80.2%）曾观察到有教师用藤条惩罚学生。其中约五分之一的人还观察到教师对学生的头部（19.8%）和面部（16.3%）进行体罚。
研究结果表明，ESTs常用的体罚行为对学生的眼睛具有显著的伤害潜力。建议在小学废除体罚，转而引入教师对犯错学生进行纪律处分的替代性非虐待方法。
