How Much Does it Hurt? Only the Children Can Tell

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Summary: This report is a survey of corporal punishment
in schools in Taiwan, Province of China.

The survey was conducted in 23 cities/counties (except Kinmen County and Matsu County) in Taiwan, Province of China. The total respondents are 3240, including 1164junior high school students and 2076 primary school students The systematic random sampling was used to averagely survey students of both sexes from each grade. The survey was carried out at the front door of the primary and junior high schools, and the students were interviewed with their consent. The organisation adopts the common consensus of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, American Pediatric Society, Global Pediatric Alliance, etc., for defining corporal punishment. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child also provides some insight. In this survey, corporal punishment refers to the infliction of physical pain, or the control of body, to cause mental suffering, as a means of punishment.

Owner: Humanistic Education Foundationpdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Taiwan_Province_of_China-corp-pun.pdf

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Humanistic Education Foundation
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http://www.crin.org/docs/Taiwan_Province_of_China-corp-pun.pdf

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