Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools

by Franziska Fay

Disputing Discipline explores how global and local children's rights activists' efforts within the school systems of Zanzibar to eradicate corporal punishment are changing the archipelago's moral and political landscape. Through an equal consideration of child and adult perspectives, Fay explores what child protection means for Zanzibari children who have to negotiate their lives at the intersections of universalized and local "child protection" aspirations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978821743
• ISBN13: 9781978821743
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher