A Study on Technical High School Teachers' Views Concerning Corporal Punishment

Said Taş

doi:10.13189/ujer.2016.041216

Abstract

Corporal punishment is defined as inflicting pain on body of someone who presents undesired behavior or does not present expected behavior. In the developed world, experiencing information society, corporal punishment is still in the agenda in educational system in Turkey. In this study, it was aimed to determine technical high school teachers' attitudes concerning corporal punishment in terms of various variables. The research is in scan type and a descriptive study. The research universe consists of the teachers who work at Technical High schools in Isparta, Antalya and Burdur in 2015-2016 semester. The research sample is 160 teachers who work at eighteen different schools which are at low, medium and high socio economic levels at research universe. In the research, the scale which is developed by Gozutok[4], is used to determine teachers' attitudes concerning corporal punishment. For analyzing data, for independent groups, t test and one way variance analysis are used. According to the research results; significant differences have been found out between technical school teachers' attitude towards physical punishment in terms of the socio-economic level of the schools where they work, their working years, and their gender. However, not an important difference has been found out between the attitude of teachers towards physical punishment in terms of the factors which are their marital status, having children and their class size.

Highlights

Schools are the official institutions established in order for students to socialize
A Study on Technical High School Teachers’ Views Concerning Corporal Punishment schools, which were randomly chosen from the schools included in the research population and of which 6 were at low, 6 were at medium and 6 were at high socio-economic levels
Teachers working in vocational high schools located in areas of medium and low socio-economic levels apply more physical punishment on their students than those working in technical high schools located in areas of high socio-economic level

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Introduction

Schools are the official institutions established in order for students to socialize. A number of components are available in school; namely, the administrator, teachers, students, curriculum, non-academic staff, buildings, teaching aids and materials, and the environment [1]. The most critical of those variables is the teacher. The teacher is responsible for organizing and conducting the processes required for an effective classroom and school management. Teachers’ behaviors are important in students’ achievement during and following school time. Teachers’ task in school is to make the circumstances of external environment easier to students and to purify students’ behaviors, and to secure the balance in school which is lacking in society by preventing the spread of encountered undesired behaviors into the school [2]

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