Teacher Empowerment Management in Islamic Boarding Schools Jambi Province

Influence of teacher empowerment on teachers’ organizational commitment, professional commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in schools

The present study focuses on the relationship between teacher empowerment and teachers’ organizational commitment, professional commitment (PC) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). It examines which subscales of teacher empowerment can best predict these outcomes. The data were collected through a questionnaire returned by a sample of 983 teachers in Israeli middle and high schools. P...

Factors Associated with Bullying Behavior in Islamic Private Schools, Pattani Province, Southern Thailand

The purpose of this research was to investigate the associations between students’ bullying behaviors in Islamic private schools, Pattani province and classroom management factors (democracy, authoritarian, and permissive classroom management), family upbringing factors (strict, permissive, and democracy upbringing), environment violence factors (influence of peers violence, community violence,...

Teacher Empowerment and Minimalist Design

Although the use of ICT in education has been strongly advocated with a vision to bring a paradigm shift to education, observational studies and surveys in general indicate that the actual impact of ICT on classroom teaching and learning has been limited. This paper attempts to provide a discussion of the underlying problems, and reports an experience which seems to indicate how the situation m...

Survey, Culture, and Genome Analysis of Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis in Tibetan Boarding Primary Schools in Qinghai Province, China

Trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide, is an ancient human disease. Its existence in China can be traced back to as early as the twenty-seventh century BC. In modern China, the overall prevalence of trachoma has dramatically reduced, but trachoma is still endemic in many areas of the country. Here, we report that 26 (8%) of 322 students from two rural boarding schools of...

Malnutrition in China’s Rural Boarding Schools: The Case of Primary Schools in Shaanxi Province China Youth and Children Foundation for Social Education