This study examined the cultures of two primary schools in Singapore using a variety of means, incuding a questionnaire. One school has a history and is popularly perceived today as 'Chinese'; the other is seen as 'English'. Differences in teacher culture were found between the two schools ...
Learning environment research provides a well-established approach for describing and understanding what goes on in classrooms and has attracted considerable interest in Singapore. This article reports the first study of science classroom environments in Singapore primary schools. Ten scales from the What ...
principal investigators on the Aim: To assess the level of asthma control in different ethnicities and to describe the impact of ethnicity on asthma related outcomes Method: This is a two-phased cross-sectional study involving 5366 children in nine primary schools in the Port Dickson District, ...
healthcare workers, teachers, and community leaders recruited from eight districts in the three administrative regions of Malawi; three districts from the South (Nsanje, Mulanje, and Mangochi), three from the Centre (Dowa, Salima, and Kasungu) and two from the North (Mzimba...
[image: Fiji Police] The people of Bua have taken precautionary measures as they anticipate the worst as the centre of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasa is expected to make landfall in Bua later today. Families from Luvuluvu and Tausa are currently taking shelter at Bua Primary School. ...
The aim of this study was to measure the walkability of all Perth, Western Australia (WA) schools and investigate whether differences in walkability exist by school type, socioeconomic status (SES) and/or subregion. Geographic Information Systems technology was used to measure walkability (i.e.,...
They argued that a new approach was needed: one where the everyday power relations in children’s lives were examined, through analysis of the discourses related to the normalised practices of power relations in schools, and indeed wider society: those of not only power, but race, gender, ...
enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth 6102, Australia 4 Cancer Council WA, 420 Bagot Rd, Subiaco 6008, Australia 5 South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide 5001, Australia 6 School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5001, Au...
Schools may be a particularly important setting for increasing PA among children with disabilities given that unlike typically developing children, more of the PA undertaken by children with disabilities occurs during the school day than during out-of-school hours [33]. Promoting PA in primary/...