A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Education in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Educational Psychology) in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Needs Education at the University Of Zululand, South Africa, 2015 / What educators do or can do to handle certain occurring misbehaviour in the classroom was the main subject of this study. The aim of this study was to explore or investigate the disciplinary measures the ‘Intermediate, Senior and Further Education and Training Phase’ educators in UMkhanyakude district were making use of to handle undesirable behaviour with the purpose of discovering alternative disciplinary measures that would be consistent, possible to implement and effective in dealing with different learners within the classrooms without inflicting any physical, emotional and psychological pain. A questionnaire which had closed-ended and open-ended questions was developed and distributed among 54 educators (52 educators responded) who were located around Mtubatuba Town, KwaMsane Township and UMpukunyoni Area. With the same questionnaire, out of 9 members of the School Management Team located in selected places, 6 were interviewed. Data was quantitatively and qualitatively analysed. Quantitative data was coded and entered into SPSS. This study examined the research findings on the application and the frequency of certain methods of handling misbehaviour; actions taken when a certain misbehaviour occurs and the effectiveness of those actions. Significant themes that emerged from actions taken by participants when learners misbehaves and participants’ recommendations on what they consider preferable were identified for qualitative analysis. The study findings revealed that participants did make use of certain methods with the intention of either inflicting physical, emotional or psychological pain so that the misbehaviour can be stopped. The findings revealed that the methods that were implemented caused some discomfort, most of them did not permanently stopped misbehaviour. The study recommends that parental involvement and code of conduct be made use of to handle misbehaviour. The participants did not reveal any discomfort brought by the implementation of parental involvement and code of conduct.

L’étude s’apprête à expliquer le droit de correction sur l’enfant d’après la perspective de la coopération entre la famille et l’État pour la prévention de crimes, et ainsi apporter une contribution au débat en droit actuel sur l’abolition des châtiments corporels domestiques. Eclipsé dans la codification napoléonienne, qui organise cette coopération par le biais de la détention, le châtiment corporel y réapparaît au tournant du XIXe siècle. Pour rendre compte de ce changement de manière optimale, il importait d’étudier la période d’essor de la détention correctionnelle, de 1804 jusqu’à la Troisième République, et connaître ensuite sa période de crise puis de décadence jusqu’à sa stagnation dans la législation. Vers 1880 le paysage juridique des rapports entre la famille et l’État change considérablement, et la coopération autour de la détention correctionnelle se dégrade, moment où on assiste l'émergence de l’apologie à la correction manuelle. / The purpose of the study is to explain the discipline punishment on the child from the perspective of cooperation between family and State for the prevention of crimes, and thus to contribute to the debate by current law on the eradication of corporal punishment. Eclipsed in the Napoleonic codification, which organizes this cooperation through the detention of children, corporal punishment will reappear at the turn of the nineteenth century. To realize this change optimally, it was considered important to study the boom period of the correctional detention, from 1804 until the Third Republic, and then to know its period of crisis and decay to its stagnation in the legislation. Around 1880, the legal landscape of the relationship between family and State changes considerably, and cooperation around the correctional detention deteriorates, when one witnesses the emergence of apology for domestic manual correction.