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Piele, Philip K. – 1977
This paper examines some of the historical and contemporary assumptions regarding the social and educational context of the use of corporal punishment on children, assumptions that are implicit in the Supreme Court's decision in the Ingraham v. Wright case. Beginning with a summary of the Florida case, the author outlines the Court's majority…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Corporal Punishment, Cultural Context, Democratic Values