Impact of Leadership Training Programme on Teachers' Attitude towards Giving Corporal Punishment to Students

An attitudinal change is required to be promoted amongst teachers to prevent them from giving corporal punishment to the students and it is desirable to see whether it is possible to bring about such an attitudinal change through a training and development intervention. In the entry survey conducted at the beginning of the training programme, 41.7 per cent of teacher participants expressed the opinion that punishment should be given to the students to prevent the recurrence of mistakes. After one year of training, 63.2 per cent of the respondents expressed the opinion that corporal punishment is not a method of disciplining the students and stated that punishment should not be given. 84 per cent of respondents as against 40.3 per cent one year ago, stated that they did not give corporal punishment even once in the post training period. It may be concluded that the Leadership Training Programme has succeeded in causing a shift of mind in teachers from 'giving corporal punishment' to 'not giving corporal punishment' for the purpose of disciplining the students.