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Teaching and Balance: Emotional Labour, Stress, and Stress Management Techniques in the Eastern Galilee

Y. Nissim · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Teaching is an emotional profession that requires delicate balances. This study aims to explore the ways in which teachers in the Eastern Galilee (Israel's northern periphery) cope with stress. Our main purpose is to examine the links between teachers’ stress, its sources and con...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JESBS/2017/32411

Integration of a Problem-based Learning Module into a Post-graduate Pain Medicine Education Program

D. Hegarty · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Objective: To examine the outcome of substituting a traditional “lecture series” structure with a postgraduate Problem Based Learning (PBL) structure in the context of a pain medicine educational program. The primary outcome is to assess trainee satisfaction, the PBL experience a...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/33028

Locus of Control Synergies in New Language Learning and Cultural Adaptation: A Communication Center Perspective

Roy Schwartzman & Karen E. Boger · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

This study documents how students learning English as a second language exhibit various levels of internal and external locus of control in their learning process. Focus group interviews were conducted with 21 non-native English speakers from seven nations enrolled in an intensiv...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/34367

A Survey of Gender Representation in Social Studies Textbooks of Ethiopian Primary Schools

Wondifraw Dejene · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

This study was an attempt to investigate and analyze gender representation in second cycle (grade 5-8) primary schools Social Studies textbooks. For this purpose, four Social Studies textbooks which are in use in grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 were investigated thoroughly. The content ana...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/32754

A Research on the Relationship between the Freshmen’s English Learning Motivation and Achievements in a Chinese University

Zhang Ying · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Motivation is one of the important affective factors influencing foreign language learning. This paper makes a quantitative analysis of freshmen’s English learning motivation from the perspectives of English achievements and gender differences. The correlation analysis shows that...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/33749

Effectiveness of Learning Cycle Models on Nigerian Senior Secondary Students’ Anxiety towards Chemistry

Kehinde A. Alebiosu, Jumoke Bukola Bilesanmi-Awoderu & Olajumoke Shakirat Oludipe · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Aims: The method of teaching Chemistry in Nigerian classrooms has given it an image of being a subject with a body of abstract ideas, giving room for manifestation of anxiety towards the subject at the secondary school level. It is within this context that this study investigated...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/34012

The Involvement of Professionals Working in Training as a Vector of Professionalization: The Case of Agro-pastoral Training Institutions in the West and North-West Regions of Cameroon

Fongang Fouepe Guillaume Hensel, Taïti Moussa Brigitte & Kueda Zacharie · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Aims: This article is an analysis of the contribution of socio-professional actors in agricultural training in Cameroon. Methodology: Two categories of professionals are distinguished: the family of the learners on the one hand and on the other, active actors of the agricultural...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/33923

Positions on and Attitudes towards Mathematics of Ethiopian Female-teachers and Female-students

Eti Gilad & Dorit Patkin · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

This research explores the positions on and attitudes towards mathematics held by teachers [hereafter – "teachers"] and Ethiopian female students [hereafter – "students"]. Israel is one of the largest immigration states around the globe. A successful immigration absorption is pos...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/33014

Qualitative Neuropsychological Assessment in Children with Attention Deficit Disorder

Yulia Solovieva & Luis Quintanar · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Backgrounds: The syndrome of attention deficit disorder is one of the most frequent types of disabilities in infancy. The present study analyses the results of fulfilment of tasks of qualitative neuropsychological assessment in Mexican children with and without diagnosis of atten...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/32084

To What Extent Can the Professional Characteristics of NCATE Standards be Embedded in the Islamic Teacher Preparation Program?

Wajeha T. Al-Ani & Maimuna D. Al-Zadgali · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

This study aims to investigate whether there are alignments in the characteristics and indicators of the NCATE and Islamic Education Teachers’ program. It also examines the consensus of experts in the field of Islamic Education on whether the IET characteristics requested by NCAT...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/33510

Implications of Hawking Activities on the Kumasi Campus of University of Education, Winneba

Abena Serwaa Amoatemaa · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Street vending or hawking has become an important economic activity highly patronized by persons with limited educational and professional training especially in developing countries. It is characterized by traders transforming public spaces originally unintended for trading purp...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/33356

Assessment in Higher Education: Perceptions among Stakeholders from Ghana

Frank Yao Gbadago, Alfred Morrison & Francis Donkor · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Formal education is considered an important means of acquiring knowledge and skills (both attitudinal and technical) for developing human capital stocks; and it increases one’s ability to understand and critique new ideas necessary for facilitating the adoption and/or modificatio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/29093

Redefining the Framework for Teaching Programming to Primary School Students: Results from Three Pilot Projects

Emmanuel Fokides & Pinelopi Atsikpasi · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

Aims: The study summarizes the findings of three pilot projects in which 2nd, 5th, and 6th-grade primary school students were taught basic programming concepts using game-like applications. Study Design: Experimental study with one experimental and two control groups in each pilo...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/33520

The Practice and Challenges of Distributed Leadership at Some Selected Primary Schcools of Debark District: Ethiopia

Asrat Dagnew · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the extent to which leadership was distributed among employees in the five primary schools in Debark District. In order to achieve this purpose, survey research design was employed. Questionnaire were employed to gather quantitative data f...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/32436

The Lived Experience of Beginner Teachers Who Teach in Plasma-led (Televised) Classroom: A Phenomenological Study

Wondifraw Dejene · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experience of beginner teachers who teach in a plasma-led (televised) classroom. A phenomenological research approach was employed. Three beginner teachers teaching in Hamaressa secondary school were purposively selected to parti...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/32820