Teachers's attitudes towards camping as an extra-curricular activity

Extra-curricular physical activity and socioeconomic status in Italian adolescents

BACKGROUND The relationship between physical activity and health status has been thoroughly investigated in several studies, while the relation between physical activity and socio-economic status (SES) is less investigated. The aim of this study was to measure the extra-curricular physical activity of adolescents related to the socio-economic status (SES) of their families. METHODS The survey...

Iranian Teacher Trainees’ Attitudes towards English as a Lingua Franca

The present research was an attempt to shed more enlightening light on the current wave of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), which is gradually sweeping the traditional ideologies in the field of ELT. To that end, this study examined the Iranian teacher trainees’ attitude towards ELF. What makes the present research markedly different from the other language attitude studies is in the context o...

Attitudes of medical student towards psychiatry as their future job

Introduction. The number of Medical gratuates choosing careers in psychiatry is in decline. In order to determine whether this disinclination toward psychiatry occurs before versus during medical school, this study, surveyed medical students at the start of their freshman year and last year of Medical educations. Methods. 100 freshman medical students and 100 of interns from three medical sch...

Towards an innovative learning rationale for curricular justice

Nearly half a century or so of unsuccessful attempts to achieve structural equity in educational outcomes exposes the ultimate ineffectiveness of conventional educational practices. This is of great concern because in the era of ‘fast capitalism’ and the globally competitiveness of the ‘New Work Order’, educational achievement by working class and ‘minority’ group students, and therefore our co...

Extra-curricular activities and academic performance in secondary students