Prevalence of Physical Abuse at Primary School Level in District Faisalabad
Physical abuse in schools is quite visible in developing countries like Pakistan; it is being covered by maintaining discipline in schools which instigated to conduct this study as a dire need of the time to cope with physical abuse at the primary school level. A multi-stage sampling technique was used. Two hundred and forty-five teachers and 23 head teachers and 500 students were selected from the Primary Section of Higher Secondary Schools of two tehsils (City & Sadar) of District Faisalabad. A Likert type scale for teachers and headteachers and a dichotomous questionnaire for students were used as research instruments. Mean, Standard Deviation, ANOVA, ttest, frequency, Mann-Whitney u test were applied to analyze data. Teachers and headteachers’ perceptions indicated that physical abuse exists moderately whereas students’ responses explored the presence of a high level of physical abuse by the teachers in the schools.
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Physical abuse, Primary school level, School teacher, Head teacher
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(1) Nadia Rafique
Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Education,Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Bushra Naoreen
Assistant Professor,Department of Education,Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Ayub Buzdar
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.