As for my research project I've asked children in the Russian school in Dubai how they were punished, how trustful their relationships with parents are and do they think the punishment is a necessity. I chose this topic because I wanted to be a teacher, so I've read lots of books about teaching and raising children and seen lots of surveys on the topic. Some of them show the inefficiency of punishments as a motivational method, and another explains why punishment might cause changes in the body. Child punishments are explored pretty decently, so my goal was not to discover something completely new and revolutionary, but to see what children think about punishments themselves and is there any correlation between the amount of punishments and its excuse.
One of the most
significant difference of my project are children I've been asking. They formed
an interesting and quite traditional and strict mix of soviet and Muslim culture.
Most of the students come from Russia, but there are some students from other
post-soviet countries as well, such as Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc.
And all of these kids are living in UAE, so Muslim culture influences their life
even if none of their parents is Muslim.
I am also going to make
an artistic outcome with this survey, which also makes it different from
scientific surveys and large books with plain text. As an outcome, I am thinking
about a comic/book with illustrations. I guess pictures will help me to make
the project more emotional and touching. I am also planning to make it in form
of dialogue, so it would have different points of view and probably it might
help some people to change their opinion, cause there will be characters they
might associate themselves with. It will also make the whole thing more objective,
cause it will have not only personal stories but also surveys, critiques and
discussions.
There are lots of people
who are making comics about raising kids or being a teacher such as
"Parenting is..." by Betje, "When's it hometime?" by Colm
C. or comics by Lunarbaboon. But mostly those are comics about everyday routine
and some funny situations, and it is hard to find any discussion in there.
Plus some of them are showing punishments as well (and only from parents'
perspective) which leads to even more normalization of punishments in culture,
while I would like to show several perspectives - children, parents,
teachers, psychologists and other people.
Reference list:
Ballard, T., Sewell, D., Cosgrove, D. and Neal, A. (2019) ‘Information Processing Under Reward Versus Under Punishment’, Psychological Science, 30 (5), pp. 757-764 [Online]. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797619835462 (Accessed 29 March 2022).
Nakazawa, D. (2015) Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal. New York: Atria Books.
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