Regarding the physical punisment in very Young children

Abstract

This article shares the progress of the research, which I am doing in the context of the doctoral program
in Social Sciences and Humanities, on the representations educators have regarding physical punishment
to children. There is the history of physical punishment, and the first hypothesis according to which it is
an event related to the representations and appraising of children, likewise, as an act related towards the
pleasure that some educators have in making children suffer. After a analysis of the current Colombian laws
regarding physical punishments including the International Convention on Children´s Rights, there is the
second hypothesis in which this belief that it is the fastest way to educate children still persists in the most
intimate charters of policy makers.