Speakers at a workshop on 'Problem solving mechanism in schools for the elimination of corporal punishment' said that corporal punishment leaves psychological and physical impacts on students, stressing the need for using alternative methods of guidance.
The daylong workshop was organised by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child at Provincial institute for teacher Education (PITE), here on Saturday. The workshop was attended by around 100 education department officials and teachers from different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Programme Manager of SPARC Imran Takkar, highlighted corporal punishment, its types and its impacts on children. He also talked about reasons of corporal punishment and alternatives to it. He informed the participants that all the problems causing corporal punishment could be easily solved through a mechanism of guidance and counselling.
He said that through community participation the issue of corporal punishment could be eliminated from schools. He said that proper counselling of students could be a valuable alternative to corporal punishment. Unfortunately, he added, teachers had mostly been relying on corporal punishment as a mean of guiding students.
National Manger SPARC, Imtiaz, said that SPARC had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the elementary and secondary education department under which it had trained over 4000 male and female primary teachers in the pilot districts - Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Peshawar and Charssadda. He said that the organisation introduced problem solving mechanism in 75 schools in the selected districts and they had regularly been visiting those schools for valuable inputs with an objective to eliminate corporal punishment from schools. Director PITE Satwat Jehan, appreciated the mechanism introduced by SPARC for the elimination of corporal punishment.
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