"Che Charta Dab Dey, Halta Adab Dey"- A Pushto Saying Meaning: Where There is Physical Punishment, There is Order and Respect

The issue of physical punishment is addressed by using student and teacher data obtained through a combined structured and semi-structured interview technique in a study carried out in the Division of Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. An overview of the political, socio-economic and educational situation is presented. It is argued that the current paradigm of education cannot ensure any correlation with economic and social development. In order to make education an effective tool for social and economic change, it needs to be re-conceptualized by moving away from a transmission paradigm towards a paradigm of transformation. One way of bringing about such a shift at the conceptual level is through teacher education programmes, such as the one which led to this study.

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The Author: Annemarie Profanter was born in 1976 and received her first Doctorate in Education in 2004 and her second in Psychology in 2006 from the University of Innsbruck (Austria). She received a masters degree in Psychology of Education from the University of London's Institute of Education. She was a research assistant with the University of Bolzano's Faculty of Education from 2000-2003. In 2004 Annemarie Profanter earned her tenure as a researcher in the Faculty of Education. She has done visiting lectureships and fellowships for such esteemed international institutions as The City University of Science and Information Technology in Peshawar (Pakistan) and the American University affiliated, Dhofar University in Salalah (Oman).

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Contents: Physical Punishment of Children and Youth in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan - Cultural and Religious Issues - Legal Framework - Empirical Analysis adopting a combined Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology.