For decades, there has been growing advocacy and policy reform to provide an inclusive education for students with disabilities which since specified as their human right under the Convention on Rights of Persons Disabilities. Teachers play essential role in implementing education, yet they describe inadequate support ensure its success. This study aims identify synthesise research examining te...

Even though international research has offered a rich account of teacher educators’ professional learning, it overlooked the implications disciplines they teach for their learning engagement. Therefore, is timely to examine educators from different fields expertise offer more specific and subject-related understanding involvement. This study investigates initiatives that Chilean university-base...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of spiritual needs and identify factors associated with spiritual needs among patients with cancer and family caregivers. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative. SETTING Inpatients and outpatients at a university medical center in the southwestern United States. SAMPLE 156 patients with cancer and 68 family caregivers who were primar...

Four schools were selected randomly and all 12 year old children were included in the study. A total of 613 school children (334 boys and 279 girls) were examined. A self-administered pretested questionnaire about perceived need to have their teeth straightened was elicited. Clinical examination was carried using Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI). Chi-square test was done to test the association bet...

The present study examined factors associated with harmony in adolescent girls' relationships with their mothers and their best friends. A framework was proposed in which relationship harmony was expected to be related to individual characteristics of each partner and the match between the individual characteristics of each partner. 60 adolescent girls, their mothers, and their best friends par...