The Paradox of Power in a People's Republic of China Middle School by Martin Schoenhals

Author:Martin Schoenhals [Schoenhals, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781134943418
Google: 1q8FDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15T05:08:33+00:00

Discipline by Public Criticism

Not surprisingly, I did not see many instances of public criticism or public disciplining of individual students, since these methods are reserved for the worst offenses. Perhaps the best example is cited in Chapter 2, where I described an all-school criticism of students who had beaten up a classmate. I also heard about an all-school criticism of a boy in junior grade one who had "taken excessive liberties with a female student." The boy was criticized and expelled from Third Affiliated for one year. Sometimes, students are made to write self-criticisms and read them in class. These self-criticisms are posted in the hallways, where they will be seen and read by everyone. During class the teacher sometimes deliberately tries to cause misbehaving students to lose face by making them stand throughout class, in the classroom, as punishment. Zhou Laoshi once became very angry because many of her students in senior grade one had not done their homework. She made those students, about thirty in all, stand during class and do their homework while they were standing. She also refused to teach during that period. By making them lose face this way, she said, it would both punish them and persuade them to mend their ways. (However, Xiao Li, commenting on this method, said that a teacher who disciplines this way only makes himself lose face, because having to resort to such tactics shows that the teacher cannot get students to do what he wants them to do.) Students who must stand are visually separated from their classmates, a kind of physical metaphor for loss of face.

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