School teachers have an elevated risk of voice problems due to the vocal demands in the workplace. Studies suggest that male and female teachers respond differently, which may explain why female teachers have an elevated risk for vocal disorders. Presented will be an amalgamation of two studies investigating gender differences in voice use in the school setting. In the first study, 57 teachers ...

Teacher professional identity is widely acknowledged as a multi-dimensional dynamic evolving concept contributing to teachers’ self-perception about their professional roles. This qualitative study aimed to explore how different instructional settings of teaching English as a foreign language in Iran impacted on teachers’ professional identities in a comparative way. To this end, 25 English tea...

Teacher education philosophy plays an important role in enhancing the teachers’ awareness of the practices particularly in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This study meant to observe the possible effect of the awareness of teacher education philosophy on EFL teachers’ professional skill in the light of Kumaravadivelu’s postmethod parameters, tapping teachers’ gender, academi...

BACKGROUND Problem based learning (PBL) has made major impact on curricular designing and practice in medical education for the last forty years. Incorporation of PBL approach in medical education has been a challenge and opportunity for both educationists on how to impart change and medical teachers on how to internalise the change. OBJECTIVES This paper aimed to investigate experiences, ach...

UNLABELLED Organized introduction of prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination can reduce the burden of cervical cancer in developing countries. One of the most effective ways is through a national school-based program. Information on teachers is therefore important since this group may have a disproportionate influence in the success of any implementation. OBJECTIVE To assess teach...

Background: The prognosis of traumatized tooth often depends on the prompt and appropriate treatment, which often relies on the people who are present at the site. Often these injuries occur in school environment and, therefore, the perception of school teacher towards these is crucial to prognosis. Method: A total of 131 teachers from different schools of Durg district, Chhattisgarh providing ...

UNLABELLED Theme: Child protection and managing risk. INTRODUCTION On child abuse the protection of children requires cooperation between health and education professionals. OBJECTIVES To relate the sociodemographic and training context variables with the perception of teachers about child abuse. METHODS A descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional study. A sample of 172 teachers of th...