Corporal punishment: effects, ethics, and policy implications

¶ … corporal punishment as it is used in classroom management. It is a concern that has plagued educators for some time because there are many different beliefs about it and there are many different suggestions about how it should be undertaken, or whether it should be undertaken at all. In this thesis, the issue will be thoroughly discussed and analyzed in order to better understand why it is so important for the future of the student population in this country - and for the educators as well.

The first section, the Introduction, examines the statement of the problem and the background of the study. Without sufficient backgrounding, there will be difficulties in understanding why the study is so important and what the real concern is that is being addressed. The first chapter is designed to alleviate this kind of problem. The second section, the Review of Related Literature, is a comprehensive review of the literature. Rather than provide chronological information, which is done in some studies, the literature review will categorize the literature into related theoretical concepts that can be easily understood. The literature will progress logically from one issue to another until everything that must be said about the subject has been discussed. By doing so, the literature review will make more logical sense and be easier to understand.

The third section deals with the Methodology behind the study. There are some specific issues that must be looked at in this chapter, and they include the research design and approach - whether qualitative or quantitative - the population and sample that was used for this particular study, the way that the data was collected and tabulated, and the procedures for the data analysis that will take place in section four. By providing this information in the methodology, readers can logically progress from the way that the data was collected and handled to what the data told the researcher.

Section four discusses the information that the data provided. It presents the findings and discusses them, as well as summarizing them so that readers see the picture of what the researcher was attempting to find out and how well that effort succeeded. The data analysis section indicates what was learned based on what was conducted in the methodology.