The main goal of this paper is to document the nature of boarding schools and empirically analyze the difference of nutrition intake and malnutrition status between boarding and non-boarding students in western rural China. By using two data sets about boarding schools and boarding students in Shaanxi Province, a representative province in western rural China, this paper finds that dormitory an...

BACKGROUND Although 10% of Israeli youth live in boarding schools, few studies, except for those focusing on mental health, have examined the well-being of this population subgroup. Thus, the aims of this study were to explore: (1) the prevalence rates of five aspects of well-being (i.e., healthy habits, avoidance of risky behaviors, peer relationships, adult relationships, and school environme...

For well over a century, there have been boarding schools for American Indian children. During the last decades, the long history of these boarding schools has increasingly come under the review of historians and social scientists. The reviews making the biggest splash focused on those boarding schools having misguided policies or run by incompetent administrators. But often overlooked in these...

Citation: Heyeres M, McCalman J, Bainbridge R and Redman-MacLaren M (2017) Staff Capacity Development Initiatives That Support the Well-being of Indigenous Children in Their Transitions to Boarding Schools: A Systematic Scoping Review. Front. Educ. 2:1. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00001 Staff Capacity Development initiatives That Support the well-being of indigenous Children in Their Transitions to...

Currently more than half the population of Uganda is under 18 years - a demographic dispensation caused by civil war, poverty, high fertility rates, and the AIDS epidemic. Drawing upon ethnographic research in south-eastern Uganda, the study analyses the difficulties of integrating increasing numbers of adolescent orphans and other vulnerable children into Ugandan society. Aid workers and resea...

the students who live in boarding schools experience more stress than others which live with their parents.therefore, the mental health of this group is of special importance. the present study attempted to examine the mental health status of adolescent students in boarding high schools in . this was a cross-sectional study which was conducted by using stratified cluster sampling method. this s...

conclusions according to the results of the current study, living with family members has positive effects on mental health and other mental processes of adolescents. results according to the results of the current study, there was a significant relationship between the girl students living in boarding high schools and their peers in regular high schools in the aggression, anxiety, and depressi...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, China’s Ministry of Education embarked on an ambitious program of primary school mergers by shutting down small village schools and opening up larger centralized schools in towns and county seats. The goal of the program was to improve the teacher and building resources in an attempt to raise the human capital of students in poor rural areas, although it was r...

About 70% of children and adolescents entering the boarding schools came from the families problematic on the alcoholism and drug addiction where they were subject of the physical and psychological assault. The family ill-being, neglect, lack of consideration for children from the part of their hard drinking parents resulted into the development of mental pathology and pathology of other organs...