Shining Light on Silence
Corporal Punishment as an Abuse of Power in the Irish School System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21473100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Quinlan, T R Quinlan (House of Representatives, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 46-2 |
| Pages | 85-102 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Études irlandaises (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0183-973X • E-ISSN: 2259-8863 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.11857 |
| OpenAlex | W4200143549 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article focuses on one second-level teacher’s experience of the use and abuse of corporal punishment in Ireland both during his own school years and during some forty years spent as a classroom practitioner. The years encompassed in this essay range from 1962 until 2018 when the author retired. The article offers a positive definition of power which is life-enhancing by way of foregrounding the gross abuse of that power in Irish schools during those years. Considerable attention is given to the rights of the child as an individual in his or her own right and the article highlights the contribution of major educationists to that end. Firmly rooted in the area of education studies, this article offers an ego-historical take on the physical and emotional bullying of young children from the early 1960s to more recent times. Acknowledging that silence in the face of any form of the abuse of power is itself consent, the author argues that any system of education worth its salt must promote a strong moral code of conduct on the part of those whom parents entrust with the education of their children
Abuse of power · Aesthetics · Child abuse · Corporal punishment · Criminology · Foregrounding · Irish · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Psychological abuse · Silence · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Children's Rights and Participation · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |