Changing perspectives on corporal punishment in schools: Insights from Ugandan young people

Jenny Parkes, Daniel Carter, Rehema Nagawa, Junior Brian Musenze, Joan Ritar Kasidi, Simone Datzberger, Tvisha Nevatia, Janet Nakuti, Amiya Bhatia, Dipak Naker, Karen Devries, Institute of Education, University College London, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Medical Research Council, Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Raising Voices

Childhood: A journal of global child research

Published online on October 31, 2025

Abstract

Childhood, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 352-369, May 2026.
This paper contributes to decolonising ways in which corporal punishment has been understood and represented in Africa, through engaging with the complex views of young Ugandans about corporal punishment in schools. Conceptualising time as non-linear, and ...