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Corporal Punishment: The Need for a Historical Perspective - Corporal Punishment in American Education: Readings in History, Practice, and Alternatives, edited by Irwin A. Hyman and James H. Wise. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979. 471 + xv pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

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Essay Review IV
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Copyright © 1983 by History of Education Society 

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Notes

1. Hyman, Irwin A. and Wise, James H., eds., Corporal Punishment in American Education: Readings in History, Practice, and Alternatives (Phila., 1979), p. 3. For the original citation, see Ingraham v. Wright, 97 S. Ct. 1401, at 1412 (1977).Google Scholar

2. Ibid., p. 4.Google Scholar

3. Welsh, Ralph S., “Severe Parental Punishment and Aggression: The Link between Corporal Punishment and Delinquency,” in ibid., p. 137.Google Scholar

4. Ibid., p. 5.Google Scholar

5. Cobb, Lyman, The Evil Tendencies of Corporal Punishment as a Means of Moral Discipline in Families and Schools, Examined and Discussed (New York, 1847), p. 75 and 82.Google Scholar

6. Ibid., pp. 221–53, excerpted the comments of various educators surveyed on the issue of school discipline.Google Scholar

7. See Finkelstein, Barbara, “Governing the Young: Teacher Behavior in American Primary Schools, 1820–1880. A Documentary History,” (Ed. D. diss., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1970).Google Scholar

8. Greven, Philip, The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America (New York, 1977); see also Slater, Peter Gregg, Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life (Hamden, Conn., 1977); Morgan, Edmund, The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth Century New England (New York, 1966).Google Scholar

9. Hyman, & Wise, , Corporal Punishment in American Education, p. 23.Google Scholar

10. Ibid., p. 54.Google Scholar

11. Ibid., p. 64 Google Scholar

12. Slater, , Children in the New England Mind, 2848. Calhoun, Daniel, The Intelligence of a People (Princeton, NJ, 1973), pp. 134–205.Google Scholar

13. I have tried to explore these questions in my own work on corporal punishment. See Glenn, , “Changing Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment in the Age of Jackson,” (Ph.D. diss., State University of New York in Buffalo, 1979).Google Scholar

14. Turner, James, Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind (Baltimore, MD, 1980).Google Scholar

15. Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York, 1977).Google Scholar

16. Lazerson, Marvin, Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870–1915 (Cambridge, Mass., 1971), pp. 3233.Google Scholar