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Direct linkÖztürk, Mustafa; Pizmony-Levy, Oren – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the dispositions of early career teacher educators as young academics toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues. Through their interpretations, concerns, awareness and ownership of sustainability, the study portrays how a global phenomenon is articulated specifically within the local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Schools of Education, Teacher Attitudes
Download full textReadiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2022
This document describes resources to support the role of teachers in school safety efforts. The resources are organized into the following categories: (1) General Resources; (2) Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) Development; (3) Educator Resilience and Self-Care; (4) Hazard- and Threat-Specific; and (5) Youth Preparedness.
Descriptors: Teacher Role, School Safety, Emergency Programs, Resilience (Psychology)
Van Gorp, Angelo; Collelldemont, Eulàlia; Félix, Inês; Grosvenor, Ian; Norlin, Björn; Padrós Tuneu, Núria – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The question "What does this have to do with everything else?" refers to ecological thinking. In this article, we use an ecological approach to explore the interrelationships between the incidence of the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, its trajectories and impacts on education. Our emphasis on children and their environment, as specific…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Communicable Diseases, World History, Social Influences
Lam, Arena C.; Berliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X. – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
Even before COVID-19, school districts wanted to understand if school-based telemedicine services met student health needs during the school day and helped keep students in school all day, every day. Specifically, districts were interested in knowing if telemedicine enabled students with a school-day health issue to return to class instead of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Age Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
Denny, Thomas N.; Andrews, Laura; Bonsignori, Mattia; Cavanaugh, Kyle; Datto, Michael B.; Deckard, Anastasia; DeMarco, Todd; DeNaeyer, Nicole; Epling, Carol A.; Gurley, Thaddeus; Haase, Steven B.; Hallberg, Chloe; Harer, John; Kneifel, Charles L.; Lee, Mark J.; Louzao, Raul; Moody, M. Anthony; Moore, Zack; Polage, Christopher R.; Puglin, Jamie; Spotts, P. Hunter; Vaughn, John A.; Wolfe, Cameron R. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
In fall 2020, Duke University's COVID-19 prevention strategy included risk reduction behaviors, frequent testing using pooled SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction testing, and contact tracing. Among 10,265 students who received testing 68,913 times, 84 had positive results. One half of infections were asymptomatic, and some had high viral loads.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Screening Tests, Disease Control
Fredricks, Karla – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2019
War and other forms of conflict are frequently the culprit for disrupted immunization practices, as government attention and funding are diverted elsewhere and people are displaced due to fighting. In other instances, the causes are related to deficiencies in resources and infrastructure, such as limited quantities of vaccinations and/or…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Immigrants, Incidence, Access to Health Care
Rosamond S. Hancock – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Annually, in the U.S., there are over 27,000 individuals diagnosed with cancers that are caused by the human papillomavirus. The total health care cost related to cervical cancer alone in the U.S. is $3.7 billion (Thomas, 2016). The HPV…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Public Health, Web Sites, Intervention
Chanel De Smet; Jasmine Nation; Alejandra Yep; Alan Henriquez – American Biology Teacher, 2024
This paper presents a novel approach to teaching how vaccines work in the body, and introduces a community outreach project and activity we piloted with youth. Our Nuestra Ciencia program addresses scientific misconceptions among bilingual elementary school children in engaging and scientifically accurate ways. Utilizing analogies and…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Logical Thinking, Misconceptions, Elementary School Students
Goldhaber, Dan; Imberman, Scott A.; Strunk, Katharine O.; Hopkins, Bryant; Brown, Nate; Harbatkin, Erica; Kilbride, Tara – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
The decision about how and when to open schools to in-person instruction has been a key question for policymakers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The instructional modality of schools has implications not only for the health and safety of students and staff, but also student learning and the degree to which parents can engage in job activities.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Miller, Michele; Romine, William – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
As we have seen from the current COVID-19 pandemic, misconceptions concerning viruses can lead to disease spread and panic. Therefore, it is imperative to determine misconceptions held concerning epidemics and pandemics. One virus that warrants study of misconceptions, albeit given limited attention in the West, is the Ebola virus. An assessment…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Misconceptions, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control
Gretz, Matthew R.; Huff, Mark J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Prior research suggests that individuals recruit a disease-avoidance system designed to avoid sources of illness through threat detection and memory. Our study evaluated whether disease-related memory benefits reflect the distinctive/salient nature of a diseased state versus the infectious nature of a disease by comparing memory for objects…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Diseases, Communicable Diseases, Memory
Öncü, Emine; Vayisoglu, Sümbüle Köksoy; Lafci, Digdem; Yurtsever, Dilek; Bulut, Ebru Ravli; Peker, Esra – Journal of School Nursing, 2019
Hand hygiene for children is crucial to keep them healthy. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of two educational initiatives on "handwashing effectiveness (HWE)." A randomized controlled trial was carried out during April/June 2016, and 96 primary school students were randomly assigned to Group I receiving education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Hygiene, Health Education
Adams, Lavonne M.; Canclini, Sharon; Tillman, Kelle – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: To describe activation of a Point of dispensing (POD) in response to an influenza outbreak, highlighting the use of a student-led model. Participants: Faculty, staff, and students of Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Texas Christian University (TCU), as well as those located in its primary building. Methods: In response to…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Communicable Diseases, College Students, College Faculty
Maeyama, Kaori; Tomioka, Kazumi; Nagase, Hiroaki; Yoshioka, Mieko; Takagi, Yasuko; Kato, Takeshi; Mizobuchi, Masami; Kitayama, Shinji; Takada, Satoshi; Nagai, Masashi; Sakakibara, Nana; Nishiyama, Masahiro; Taniguchi-Ikeda, Mariko; Morioka, Ichiro; Iijima, Kazumoto; Nishimura, Noriyuki – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Association of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection with autism spectral disorder (ASD) has been suggested since 1980s. Despite the observed association, its role as a risk factor for ASD remains to be defined. In the present review, we systematically evaluated the available evidence associating congenital CMV infection with ASD using…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Communicable Diseases, Children, Autism
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2022
This document provides an annotated list of Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center resources and federal partner resources. The resources are directed toward public health officials and K-12 planning teams on emergency operations plan development and preparing schools for before, during, and after an…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs, Public Health, Public Officials
