This study was intended to study the effect of personal experience and subspecialization on the knowledge of epilepsy of teachers at Czech elementary schools, and on their attitudes towards children with epilepsy and on epilepsy itself in general. 193 teachers from 10 different elementary schools in Pilsen, Czech Republic, were involved in the study. We found that teachers with personal experie...

Use of corporal punishment to manage discipline continues in primary schools in Kenya despite its ban through a legal notice of the year 2001. There have been several reported cases of teacher use of corporal punishment in schools implying failure of interventions such as guidance and counselling to yield expected results in improving discipline in schools. This study therefore investigated tea...

Introduction Internet technology illuminates some potential ways of innovations in education. Currently, it is very common for teachers to search some on-line information to enrich their instruction. However, they may find a plethora of information on-line but not always find something very useful for teaching. The Internet opens another avenue for teachers to enhance their instruction; that is...

This article presents the results of a study about the views of mathematics held by54 primary and 42 secondary prospective teachers. Data were collected through aquestionnaire that included two open questions as well as a series of items to beassessed on a Likert scale. We compare the results obtained by these two means. Wealso compare the results concerning the primary student ...