Anderson S, Payne M A
Black Bess Primary School, St. Peter, Barbados.
Child Abuse Negl. 1994 Apr;18(4):377-86. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(94)90040-x.
Most previous research has suggested that children often express little unconditional disapproval of the use of corporal punishment in schools. However, this might be expected to change when pupils become aware that such treatment is no longer permitted in many countries, or hear it labelled as "abuse." This paper reports on research conducted in elementary schools in the Caribbean island of Barbados, where head teachers (or their authorized deputies) are still permitted by law to use corporal punishment. Findings indicated that approximately three-quarters of pupils surveyed still approved use of corporal punishment with their own age group, although their comments also suggested that a considerable amount of routine (and illegal) "flogging" or "lashing" by regular classroom teachers occurred, which many wished to see stopped. The growing risk of clashes between parents and schools was also identified. While this and other recent studies in Barbados provide little evidence of support for the total abolition of corporal punishment within the educational system, it is hoped that research may have some role to play in exerting pressure on schools to eliminate some of their more ritualized and pedagogically counterproductive practices.
以往的大多数研究表明，孩子们通常很少无条件地反对在学校使用体罚。然而，当学生们意识到这种惩罚方式在许多国家已不再被允许，或者听到它被贴上“虐待”的标签时，这种情况可能会有所改变。本文报道了在加勒比海岛国巴巴多斯的小学进行的一项研究，在那里，校长（或其授权代表）依法仍被允许使用体罚。研究结果表明，约四分之三接受调查的学生仍然赞成对自己这个年龄段的学生使用体罚，尽管他们的评论也表明，正规课堂教师经常进行大量常规（且违法）的“鞭打”或“抽打”，许多人希望这种情况能停止。研究还发现家长与学校之间发生冲突的风险在增加。虽然巴巴多斯的这项研究以及其他近期研究几乎没有提供支持在教育系统中全面废除体罚的证据，但希望这项研究能在向学校施压以消除一些更为形式化且对教学产生反作用的做法方面发挥一定作用。
