Contextual Factors Promoting the use of Alternative Strategies to Corporal Punishment in Basic Schools in Mampong Municipality, Ghana

Dr. Kwadwo Oteng Akyina and Prof. Prem Jotham Heeralal Heeralal
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Dr. Kwadwo Oteng Akyina: Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development, Ghana
Prof. Prem Jotham Heeralal Heeralal: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2024, vol. 8, issue 6, 3183-3194

Abstract: The use of alternative strategies to corporal punishment has become imperative as a result of the numerous negative consequences of the use of corporal punishment. This study, which utilized the qualitative research approach, studied 15 Basic school teachers and 15 Basic school headteachers who were purposively sampled from some Basic schools in Mampong Municipality of Ghana. The study was intended to find out the contextual reasons for their use of alternative strategies to corporal punishment. Using interview, focus group discussion and the phenomenological design, it was found that, the teachers use the alternative strategies because of policy reason, need to improve behaviour and the need to avoid the negative consequences of corporal punishment. These imply that the reasons for their use of the alternative strategies are rational. It was recommended that, these grounds upon which the teachers use these alternative strategies should be sustained by educational managers in the Municipality through continuous education of the stakeholders of education.

Date: 2024
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