Mother tongue plus two languages: are Scottish primary teachers confident to deliver?

Are teachers knowledgeable and confident about dealing with allergy emergencies?

Results 724 teachers (8%) completed the survey. 48% had at least one student under their direct supervision with a severe allergy. 28% believed that all students with severe allergies had a management plan for treatment. 18% never reviewed this plan. More than 80% were confident in recognizing and knowing what to do for a severe reaction, and in using an epinephrine auto-injector. Teachers lear...

Rereading the ratio of two language backgrounds (standard language and mother tongue) in education based on lived experience of primary teachers

The purpose of the current research is to review the ratio of two linguistic approaches (standard language and mother tongue) in education based on the lived experience of elementary teachers. The research paradigm is interpretive/constructive, the research approach is qualitative, the research strategy is phenomenology, and the research tactic is latent content analysis. The purposeful samplin...

Paying primary care practitioners to deliver alcohol brief interventions: the Scottish experience

Health Improvement, Efficiency, Access to Services, and Treatment (HEAT) in the Scottish National Health Service (NHS) refers to a management system that includes a target to reduce health harms due to alcohol. The Government set NHS Scotland a HEAT target of delivering 149,449 alcohol brief interventions (ABIs) between 2008 and 2011. National guidance was offered on delivery models in a range ...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...