Studies are underway on the propriety of making English-language education compulsory at the elementary school level in Japan. According to the results of a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 70.7 percent of elementary school student parents polled replied that such education should be required.1 Among the reasons cited for this view is the b...

management of environmental education is the most fundamental method of protecting environment which is intended to increase awareness and to make individuals sensitive to the physical, economic, environmental, social and political events and changes. thus, with powerful tools of identifying and describing environmental issues, the individuals can obtain skills for devising methods and solving ...

The integration of physical activity into elementary school classrooms, through brief activity breaks (ABs) and lessons that incorporate movement into instruction as active lessons (ALs), are key parts of school physical activity programming and can improve children's health and academic outcomes. With nationally representative survey data from 640 public elementary schools in the United States...

the present study aims at investigating psychometric properties of tracy's personal globe inventory (pgi). for this purpose, 633 male and female teachers from shahrekord elementary, middle and high schools were selected through stratified random sampling. the research instrument was occupation, abilities and occupational interests forms of tracy's personal globe inventory. data analys...

A study of 120 randomly selected classrooms in 30 schools in central and south Texas, USA was conducted to begin assembling baseline information on the condition of indoor air in Texas elementary schools. Part I of the study consisted of questionnaires sent to all teachers and staff in the schools to obtain information about the use of their rooms, room contents and their perceptions of its ind...

background: screening of students ´ health problems could lead to timely prevention and control of many health disorders. this study aimed to determine the nationwide prevalence of common disorders through school health screening program in iran methods: this cross-sectional national screening program was conducted in 2007-2008 among first- and third-grade- stu­dents in primary schools, first- ...