Author : Nevine Henry Rezk Saad Wasef
Source : International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research
Date of Publication : 01/2018
Abstract : School corporal punishment (SCP) against students in Egypt is officially forbidden; however it is being widely used in public and
private schools. This large gap between current education policy that bans corporal punishment (CP) and actual policy
implementation could be attributed to both family-based and school-based factors. This research was conducted as a part of an MA
thesis which aimed at finding out why corporal punishment is being practiced widely in Egyptian schools. Teachers, parents and
recent-graduate students were surveyed about the use of CP as a tool for discipline. The findings indicate that CP is highly
correlated on one hand to family acceptance through practicing CP at home against children, lack of parental reporting of teachers
perpetrating it, and sometimes encouraging teachers to practice it. On the other hand, CP is correlated to school administrative
acceptance through having school principals themselves practice CP, tolerate teachers perpetrating it, failure to respond to parents'
complaints by taking action with teachers.
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