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Discipline w/o chastisement is an educational procedure which has to be followed in any environment of educating humans below 18 years of age. Environment can be that of school or environment can be that of home. In following this procedure the so called educators i.e. teacher and the parents will assume that the child does no wrong.
This assumption is strictly applicable at the time of birth and goes on decreasing with the increase in age and its applicability is reduced to zero at the age of 18; when the child becomes an adult. Infact from 16 to 18 years of age, there is rapid transition from childhood to adulthood. It is very crucial period in the life of a child. The school needs to take special care for dealing with children of age 16 to 18.
“The child does no wrong” and need not be penalised, rebuked or caned or punished for any behaviour. Rather the educators need take steps for correcting errors in the behaviour of the child. There is no limit to the number of steps to be taken for correction of a particular unexpected behaviour. There can be x number of steps depending upon the a particular case. The educators need to continue the efforts to correct the behaviour till the result is achieved.
Remember all these steps are to be taken without loosing the temper because there is no justification for it. Why should one loose temper on child.
“We may but loose temper on an adult.” But there is a limitation while dealing with children that we will have to deal without anger and without harsh words.
Now one question may arise in our mind that what if we adopt Discipline w/o chastisement as a school procedure will all the students become disciplined? Well behaved or will all the students be able to show the expected behaviour? We will come to answer the question. But before that refer to two terms, Mastery Learning.
Capability Learning.
These are two terms connected with learning. The term ML was coined by Benjamin S. Bloom in 1970. He maintained that 95% of the students can master 95% of the course, provided they are given sufficient time and suitable instructional cum tutorial help.
Suppose, we have a course which is normally completed in one year. Keeping the concept of ML in mind, some students may learn it in 6 months and other may take 3 years. Infact some students may not be able to achieve 95% proficiency even when they are given whole life to do so.
So how practicable is the concept of ML?
We educators keep the concept of ML in our sub conscious mind. We assume that all students will be able to achieve 100% efficiency provided they work sincerely on it. We suffer with a so called this is the call perfectionist virus. Where we expect every child to be perfect. When we feel that they are not sincere we go in for their chastisement. We think them as negligents and knowingly not working on the subject or knowingly not showing the desired behaviour.
In contrast to the ML, the capability learning assumes that each child is able to attain and gain according to its capability. Children are born with different capabilities in different fields. The school must work to identify the capabilities of the child and take steps to develop them.

May 16, 2008 | 6:21 AM Comments  0 comments

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