Educational actions on first aid for early childhood education teachers: a quasi-experimental study

Children's knowledge, teachers' knowledge: Implications for early childhood teacher education

The effect of psychosocial self-care education on retirement syndrome in educators: a quasi-experimental study

Introduction and goal:Retirement is one of the life crises, which can cause psychological and social problems in people, and cause incompatibility and symptoms called retirement syndrome. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of psychosocial self-care training program on retirement syndrome in educators as a program to improve and expose retirees to retirement. Materials and meth...

Effect of Education on Asthma Control in Children: A Quasi- Experimental Study

Introduction: The prevalence of asthma has increased significantly in recent decades1 especially in lower socioeconomic groups and in minority populations. Because of the increasing prevalence of asthma among children in worldwide and Iran, the importance of timely control of the disease after its diagnosis and few studies on the effect of education on asthma control in Iran, the aim of this st...

Effects of Educational Training on Quality of Journal Clubs: a Quasi-Experimental Study

Background: Running standard journal clubs is one of the important goals of postgraduate education. Students should update their knowledge and learn critical appraisal skill. This study aimed to compare quality of journal clubs in Mashhad Dental School in order to improve educational and appraisal structure of journal clubs. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on journal clubs ...

Teachers as Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education

This article presents a constructionist approach to introducing technology, in particular robotics, in the early childhood classroom. The authors demonstrate how this approach is well suited, since the four basic tenets of constructionism have a long-standing tradition in early childhood education: (a) learning by designing meaningful projects to share in the community, (b) using concrete objec...