Emotional Abuse in Public Schools of the Punjab: An Analysis

Emotional Abuse in Public Schools of the Punjab: An Analysis
The main objectives of this study wereto identify the perception of teachers regarding emotional abuse and differences in their perception with reference to demographics (gender, age, academic qualification, professional qualification, and work experiences), and to explore students’ experiences of emotional abuse in their classrooms. The findings show that teachers negatively associated to emotional abuse of students. There are minor mean scores differences based on age, gender, academic qualification, and professional qualification demography of teachers. On contrary to the teachers who claim that they are fully aware with emotional abuse and they do not violate this during their teaching learning process however the students reveal that they experience massive amount of emotional abuse in their classroom by the teachers. The study recommends that a training module and socio-ecological resilience model for teachers may decrease the negative attitude to emotionally abuse students