background and purpose: schools are the most appropriate and reliable places for training and educating students. if health principles are not observed in schools, students will be prone to different kinds of health problems. thus the aim of this research is to study the environmental indices in primary schools in the behshahr city in 2012. materials and methods: this is a cross sectional descr...

Background & Aims of the Study:  Environment health of schools described is one of the primary determinants of students’ health. Undoubtedly, physical environment has a very important role on the education efficiency of children in the schools and nobody can neglect the importance. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate conditions of environment health in scho...

1 Laboratório de Currículo e Ensino, Núcleo de Tecnologia Educacional para a Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373/Centro de Ciências da Saúde/Bloco A/Sala 12, Cidade Universitária. 21.949-902 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. [email protected] teaching and learning about food and nutrition through science education in Brazilian schools: an intersection of kno...

This paper explores the provision of schooling in colonial India when British administrators dictated education policy. Although public and private funds were used to expand and improve the public education system, there were fewer than 3 primary schools for every 10 villages as late as 1911. To explore the impact of the funding system on the provision of schools, I empirically analyze the link...

With the ever-deepening economic reform and international trend of ICT application in education, the Chinese government is strengthening its basic education curriculum reform and actively facilitating the application of ICT in education. Given the achievement gap of ICT infrastructure and its application in middle and primary schools between urban and rural areas, a divide exists between the ne...

a survey was carried out in 1998-99 among 20 selected primary schools in the north, south, east and west regions of tehran to determine the level of teachers’ knowledge of asthma. 387 (96.7%) of 400 questionnaires were completed and evaluated. five items were investigated: “general knowledge”, “symptoms and triggers”, exercise”, treatment” and “individual experience”. statistical analysis was p...