During late 1990s, the Minister for Education in Kenya launched computer education program for public secondary schools. The main objective was to help large number of secondary students to be computer literate. This was in response to the perceived problem that a lack of computer skills was preventing Kenyan youths from acquiring jobs in the world market. However, the Minister gave no indicati...

The Danish upper secondary school system is undergoing remarkable changes these years. The teacher's role and fundamental structures of the organization changes, as comprehensive reforms put new structures into the single school. The reform build new frames of teaching into the everyday life of the teachers and questions arise: What happens when teachers are to implement such thorough reforms, ...

OBJECTIVES This paper aims at studying the influence of the organizational climate of a school on the occupational stress of the teachers. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study population were all secondary schools teachers in Tehran in 2007. Using a multi-stage random sampling method, a sample volume of 220 people was determined using the Cochran formula. Two main instruments were used to measure t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate evidence of an association between school teaching and mortality from autoimmune diseases. METHODS A proportional mortality study using US death certificates from the 1985-95 period was conducted. Death certificates that listed elementary or secondary school teaching as the usual occupation were identified, as were those that cited any of 13 autoimmune diseases as a c...

The present study examined the predictors of information technology (IT) integration in secondary school mathematics lessons. The predictors pertained to IT resource availability in schools, school contextual/institutional variables, accountability pressure faced by schools, subject culture in mathematics, and mathematics teachers' pedagogical beliefs and practices. Data from 32,256 secondary s...

This paper is an attempt to evaluate the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) InService Program on the basis of experiences of 20 secondary school teachers who attended the program in a private school in Turkey. A phenomenological approach, with a focus group method was used. The first objective of this study was to evaluate EQ program on the basis of teachers’ experiences. The second was to explore the...

BACKGROUND The teaching profession is characterized by high levels of stress and physical complaints, which might be improved through regular participation in physical activity (PA). However, the effect of PA on mental and physical health is not always consistent and depends on the type of PA performed. The aim of this study was to examine the mental, physical, and work-related health of Flemis...

Increased concern regarding drug abuse among adolescents contributes to the elaboration of prevention programs at schools. This investigation aims to know teachers' social representations, regarding drug abuse, in a secondary school in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil. A total of 16 teachers of the 5th to 8th grades participated in the study. Data were collected through associations elaborated by teac...

* Correspondence should be addressed to José Manuel Otero López, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, España. E-mail: [email protected] study was possible thanks to a grant given to the project “Estrés laboral y Burnout en los Profesionales de Enseñanza Secundaria” (reference PGIDT02CS024101PR) financed by the ...