Save the Children wants teachers and pupils at the ‘same level’ to end violence
Child protection organisation Save the Children SA wants the government to train teachers in "positive discipline" as a means of reducing violence in schools. On Tuesday, the organisation presented its initiatives to prevent violence against children‚ including its "positive discipline in everyday teaching" programme‚ to Parliament’s portfolio committee on basic education. The programme advocates that if teachers are on the "same level" as pupils‚ there will be no power struggles. "Our package is actually saying that for us to reduce violence in schools the teacher and the learner need to be at the same level. Once the teacher is above‚ it means that there is use of power towards the child." Gugu Xaba, the organisation’s programmes director‚ said: "The training helps them have agreement with the learner so learning is easy rather than when power is used and the children become resistant and there is ill discipline and then there are problems." The organisation emphasised that positi...
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