Eliminating Corporal Punishment – The Way Forward to Constructive Child Discipline

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Summary: This publication provides a comprehensive approach, including the main steps to be considered in the process of eliminating corporal punishment, and provides tools to accomplish this goal. It shows the human rights imperative and describes several aspects of the negative consequences and implications that are caused.

Contents:

List of contributors, p. 9

Executive Summary, p. 13

Foreword, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, p. 17

Introduction, p. 21

The human rights imperative for ending all corporal punishment of children, Peter Newell, p. 25

Corporal punishment: prevalence, predictors and implications for child behaviour and development, Joan Durrant, p. 49

The way forward to constructive child discipline, F. Clark Power and Stuart N. Hart, p. 91

Appendix A:
Convention on the Rights of the Child, p.129

Appendix B:
Internet resources for parents and teachers on discipline without corporal punishment, p. 153

Organisation: 
UNESCO
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