KAŽNJAVANJE U ŠKOLAMA – POTREBA ILI BALAST
PUNISHING IN SCHOOLS – NEED OR BURDEN

Summary/Abstract: Physical punishment of children was a common practice in schools in the previous historical periods. Such a practice had an aim to improve children’s behavior. It was not a rare case that parents and teachers were united in children physical punishing. They even encouraged each other explaining that such a method was the only efficient in preventing unwanted behavior or bad character. However, raising children in family and educating them later in school present the basic process of their cultivation and maturity. However, this process mostly influenced further life of the person and her/his communication with others. The attempt of this work is to present a treatment of pupils through various historical periods in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to research what sorts of punishment and methods of discipline were practiced in schools. For often, teachers simply applied most used approaches in schools not examining their purpose or efficiency. Sometimes, when they did not know how to manage peaceful working ambiance in the classroom, they used to physically punish pupils exploiting their hierarchical power. Therefore, the aim of this work is to follow teachers or those who used to work as teachers even though they did not possess a proper qualification, through the time, since the Ottoman occupation until today. These teachers developed different strategies of punishment in order to bring peace in children’s hearts and souls, or to frame their character and force them ‘to love the school’. Such non pedagogical treatments clearly display the school rigidness and absence of any respect of pupils as individuals or their needs and abilities. Pupils are vivid, creative human beings who need adults to teach them, lead and advice in their everyday school activities. They need teachers as an example for their life but not persons who would misuse their position of power in order to punish and humiliate them.

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