Teacher's position in school bulling

Mental illness in school teachers.

At a time when the medical profession is at last taking a serious view of mentally ill doctors, the problem of the mentally ill school teacher should be given more attention than it has received. Some teachers have continued to teach, perhaps for years, while suffering from manifest psychotic or psycho-neurotic illness. Thus pupils may be exposed to the prolonged influence of a teacher with one...

Computer Competence of School Teachers

Voice disorders in Nigerian primary school teachers.

BACKGROUND The prolonged use or abuse of voice may lead to vocal fatigue and vocal fold tissue damage. School teachers routinely use their voices intensively at work and are therefore at a higher risk of dysphonia. AIMS To determine the prevalence of voice disorders among primary school teachers in Lagos, Nigeria, and to explore associated risk factors. METHODS Teaching and non-teaching sta...

Physical activity levels in public school teachers.

OBJECTIVE To assess the level of physical activity in public school teachers. METHODS Cross-sectional study conducted with 1,681 teachers from the city of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, in 2009. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire short version was applied and the level of physical activity was categorized as low, moderate or high. The study sample was stratified by age, gender...

Primary School Teachers in the Information Society

This study represents a survey approach in order to analyse the information society in a regional setting. The first part deals with a current problematic issue: the human resources of the information society, which is a neglected research area of the information society. The second part of the paper will point out the main characteristics of the human adaptation of the information society. My ...