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‘Virginity is a virtue: prevent early sex’: teacher perceptions of sex education in a Ugandan secondary school [PDF]

, 2013
Sex education is a politically contentious issue in many countries, and there are numerous, competing ideologies relating to the most appropriate methods to teach young people about sexual and reproductive health.
Aggleton, Peter, Iyer, Padmini
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Commentary: Three questions for the study of traumatic brain injury in animals

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Gregory Hollin
wiley   +1 more source

A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION THAT TAKES PLACE IN DISPENSARY HEALTH UNITS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES ON THE BASIS OF THE APPLICATION PARADIGM AGIL T. PARSONS

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013
Purpose: development of recommendations for optimization the management system dispensary health units on the basis of the application paradigm AGIL T. Parsons. Methodology: theoretical analysis of the structural-functional theory T. Parsons.
Sokolov Ilya Valeryevich
doaj   +1 more source

Food banks in schools in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker, George Leckie, Cathryn Knight   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vulnerability : a view from different disciplines [PDF]

Practitioners from different disciplines use different meanings and concepts of vulnerability, which, in turn, have led to diverse methods of measuring it.
Alwang, Jeffrey, Jorgensen, Steen L., Siegel, Paul B.   +2 more
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Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims, Harriet Lowes‐Belk, Clare Routledge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Contributions of Clinical Sociology in Health Care Settings [PDF]

, 2014
This paper focuses on the emergence and promise of clinical sociology. Particular attention is paid to certified practitioners\u27 contributions (theoretical analysis, social systems perspective, levels of analysis, methodological sophistication ...
Fritz, Jan M.
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A Conversation with Monroe Sirken

, 2008
Born January 11, 1921 in New York City, Monroe Sirken grew up in a suburb of Pasadena, California. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in sociology at UCLA in 1946 and 1947, and a Ph.D.
Graubard, Barry I., Levy, Paul S., Willis, Gordon B.   +2 more
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Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source