scholarly journals Explaining the Low Primary School Performance in the Rural District of Black River, Mauritius: A Teacher’s Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Perienen Appavoo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
River Region ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Teacher's Perspective

Pass rates at the end of primary schooling for the rural district of Black River are alarming as they have remained at a low level over many years. This research seeks to explain the situation from a teacher’s perspective and to unveil the causes which persistently hamper student progress. Statistics show that children in Black River are on a par with their counterparts in other rural and urban areas in respect to access to school facilities, qualified teachers, and provision of pedagogical materials and learning tools.  This study shows that students’ motivation, follow-up of learning at home and parents’ involvement in children’s studies are at an unacceptable level and require urgent consideration. The last two determinants were found to be positively related but the correlation coefficient is not very high (r = 0.518). Analysis also points to the low and inadequate level of pre-primary education of children when they enter primary schools, and to the difficulties of teachers in educating children with social problems. One seminal finding of this research study is that, without sustained parent/community support and encouragement, learning performance in the Black River region is unlikely to be improved.  This finding is in agreement with the results of many studies reported previously in the literature. Respondents made some valuable suggestions for remedying the situation, the most important one being the need to implement community-based strategies to encourage parents and the surrounding community to support the education of children.

scholarly journals Differences in Employee Motivation at Slovak Primary Schools in Rural and Urban Areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Hitka ◽  
Katarína Stachová ◽  
Žaneta Balážová ◽  
Zdenko Stacho
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban

scholarly journals Differences in the prevalence of overweight, obesity and underweight among children from primary schools in rural and urban areas

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wolnicka ◽  
Mirosław Jarosz ◽  
Joanna Jaczewska-Schuetz ◽  
Anna Taraszewska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban

scholarly journals Transmissibility of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in small-scale outbreaks in Hunan Province, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyu Zhang ◽  
Qingqing Hu ◽  
Zhihong Deng ◽  
Shixiong Hu ◽  
Fuqiang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
School Closure ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Mean

AbstractAcute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) outbreaks are reported frequently in China. However, the transmissibility of AHC remains unclear. This study aimed to calculate the transmissibility of the disease with and without interventions. An AHC outbreak dataset from January 2007 to December 2016 in different schools was built in Hunan Province. A Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model was adopted to calculate the effective reproduction number (Reff) of AHC. Reff was divided into two parts (Runc and Rcon) where Runc and Rcon represent the uncontrolled and controlled Reff , respectively. Based on Runc and Rcon, an index of effectiveness of countermeasures (Ieff) was developed to assess the effectiveness of countermeasures in each outbreak. During the study period, 34 AHC outbreaks were reported in 20 counties of 9 cities in Hunan Province, with a mean total attack rate of 7.04% (95% CI: 4.97–9.11%). The mean Runc of AHC outbreaks was 8.28 (95% CI: 6.46–10.11). No significance of Runc was observed between rural and urban areas (t = −1.296, P = 0.205), among college, secondary, and primary schools (F = 0.890, P = 0.459), different levels of school population (F = 0.738, P = 0.538), and different number of index cases (F = 1.749, P = 0.180). The most commonly implemented countermeasures were case isolation, treatment, and health education, followed by environment disinfection, symptom surveillance, and school closure. Social distance, prophylaxis, and stopping eye exercises temporary were implemented occasionally. The mean value of Rcon was 0.16 (range: 0.00–1.50). The mean value of Ieff was 97.16% (range: 71.44–100.00%). The transmissibility of AHC is high in small-scale outbreaks in China. Case isolation, treatment, and health education are the common countermeasures for controlling the disease.

Management of minor ailments in primary schoolchildren in rural and urban areas

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
J A Cantrill ◽  
B Johannesson ◽  
M Nicholson ◽  
P R Noyce
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Primary Schoolchildren ◽  
Minor Ailments

Classroom Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Elida Kurti
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
General Education ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Intellectual Level

This paper aims to reflect an effort to identify the problems associated with the educational learning process, as well as its function to express some inherent considerations to the most effective forms of the classroom management. Mentioned in this discussion are ways of management for various categories of students, not only from an intellectual level, but also by their behavior. Also, in the elaboration of this theme I was considering that in addition to other development directions of the country, an important place is occupied by the education of the younger generation in our school environments and especially in adopting the methods of teaching and learning management with a view to enable this generation to be competitive in the European labor market. This, of course, can be achieved by giving this generation the best values of behavior, cultural level, professional level and ethics one of an European family which we belong to, not just geographically. On such foundations, we have tried to develop this study, always improving the reality of the prolonged transition in the field of children’s education. Likewise, we have considered the factors that have left their mark on the structure, cultural level and general education level of children, such as high demographic turnover associated with migration from rural and urban areas, in the capacity of our educational institutions to cope with new situations etc. In the conclusions of this study is shown that there is required a substantial reform even in the pro-university educational system to ensure a significant improvement in the behavior of children, relations between them and the sound quality of their preparation. Used literature for this purpose has not been lacking, due to the fact that such problems are usually treated by different scholars. Likewise, we found it appropriate to use the ideas and issues discussed by the foreign literature that deals directly with classroom management problems. All the following treatise is intended to reflect the way of an effective classroom management.

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