Western conceptions of child development and the models of early education they engender predominantly shape services for young children in the first eight years of life all over Africa. This chapter brings a reconceptualist perspective to the critique of Kenya's continuing failure to ground early childhood programs and services in local cultural conceptions, developmental values, childrearing ...

It is known that the professional development of the teacher includes learning opportunities that are facilitated throughout their careers and in different contexts both formal and informal. In other words, the diversity of significant and enriching experiences that teachers encounter are favourable for the development of teachers and, consequently, of the quality of their teaching.Our proposed...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their procedural knowledge in Iranian language institutes and universities. A questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework, and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EFL teachers from different gend...

The article considers the activities of author’s camps in Kostroma region as one practices non-formal education. task research is to understand how educational process organised camps. base author's camp role-playing games «Centaur» and experience pedagogic team developing conducting thematic shifts for teenagers 2009-2020. technology a situational epic game with historical plot. Authors analys...

Introduction: This study examined the moderating effect of cultural contexts in the relationship between gender and academic stress among male and female Iranian and Swedish university students. Method: The Academic Stress Questionnaire (ASQ) was administered to 212 students (112 Iranian (32 male and 78 female) and 100 Swedish (29 male and 71 female)). Linear Regression analysis was used for da...

BACKGROUNDS Infection control is one of the primary responsibilities of dental health care personnel. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the infection control practices of Iranian dentists and dental nurses working in governmental dental health care centers were influenced by their educational level and years of practice. METHODS This cross-sectional analytical study was comple...