A participative ergonomics approach to reducing injuries associated with manual tasks is widely promoted, however only limited evidence from uncontrolled trials was available to support the efficacy of such an approach. This paper reports on a randomised and controlled trial of PErforM, a participative ergonomics intervention designed to reduce the risks of injury associated with manual tasks. ...

It has been widely argued that effective citizenship education should focus on more than mere teaching of civic knowledge, but provide a wider range opportunities for the experience participation and development skills, efficacy interest instrumental to active citizenship. Opportunities critical reflection such as open classroom discussions, fairness at school, institutional student school acti...