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Thomas McAndrew; Rochelle L. Frounfelker; Lorenzo Servitje – PRIMUS, 2024
There is a need for public health undergraduates to acquire skills in data collection, statistical programming, and infectious diseases modeling. Public health officials and accreditation bodies underline the importance of a cumulative, "real-world" experience as part of a student's education. The Watermelon Meow Meow (WMM) outbreak is a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Statistics, Data Collection
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Rehamo, Aga – Comparative Education Review, 2022
This article proposes that the concept of "educational state of exception" (based on Giorgio Agamben's idea of the "state of exception") can productively explain a history of school administration, teachers, and class organization observed by the author at a school in a leper village. The educational state of exception found at…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Areas, Diseases, Educational Administration
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Chinelli, Alice; Salfa, Maria Cristina; Cellini, Andrea; Ceccarelli, Luca; Farinella, Massimo; Rancilio, Laura; Galipò, Rosario; Meli, Paolo; Camposeragna, Antonella; Colaprico, Ludovica; Oldrini, Massimo; Ubbiali, Marco; Caraglia, Anna; Martinelli, Domenico; Mortari, Luigina; Palamara, Anna Teresa; Suligoi, Barbara; Tavoschi, Lara – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Comprehensive sexuality education is an important means of promoting sexual well-being amongst young people and is key to preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, sexuality education is not currently included in the formal curriculum in Italian schools. The aim of this study was to develop an inventory of school-based sexuality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Curriculum, Prevention
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Shohel, M. Mahruf C. – Prospects, 2023
The Rohingyas, an ethnic minority of Myanmar, have been denied human rights, including nationality. For decades, they have suffered from brutal oppression, discrimination, violence, torture, unjust prosecution, murder, and extreme poverty. Hostile situations in Rakhine State have forced the Rohingyas to flee from their homes and seek refuge in…
Descriptors: Refugees, Access to Education, Childrens Rights, COVID-19
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Evelia, Humphres; Watson, Katherine; Billowitz, Marissa; Kivuvani, Mwikali; Amina, Judy; Both, Rosalijn; Araque, Heidy – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Peer education is a widely used strategy in sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) programmes for young people, yet measurement of its effectiveness often focuses on a narrow set of outcomes. This qualitative study explored how peer education was integrated into the "Get Up, Speak Out for Youth Rights!" (GUSO) programme in Kisumu…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Sex Education, Program Effectiveness
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Arnaiz-Sánchez, Pilar; Carriquí, Patricia Zorrilla; Alcaraz, Salvador; Caballero, Carmen-María – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
After the declaration of the State of Emergency in Spain in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, essential services were paralysed, including education. This change brought about consequences in the quality of education, especially in the support of students with hearing impairment. The general objective is to analyse the barriers to learning for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Students with Disabilities
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O'Malley, Teagen L.; Horowitz, Katie Rose; Burke, Jessica G. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Comprehensive sexual health education is critical for the prevention of STIs and unintended pregnancy among young people. Yet, increasing barriers to comprehensive sexual health education in classroom settings underscore the importance of youth-friendly technologies to address sexual health among young people. "It's OK to Ask Someone"…
Descriptors: Health Education, Sex Education, Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Doreleyers, April; Knighton, Tamara – Statistics Canada, 2020
This paper provides insight on how postsecondary students' academic life was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Results are based on the recent Statistics Canada crowdsourcing data collection completed by over 100,000 postsecondary students between April 19 and May 1, 2020.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Influences, Electronic Learning
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Tran, Bich Thi Ngoc; Jordan, Lorien – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and the shutdown of schools created disruptions in Vietnamese education, which has not been evaluated to date. This paper reviews the effect of COVID-19 policies on teaching and learning in higher education in Vietnam. We first contextualize higher education in Vietnam before the COVID-19 pandemic. We then analyze the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Smith, William C. – International Review of Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented shutdown of society. Among the various safety measures taken, much attention has been given to school closure as a non-pharmaceutical mitigation tool to curb the spread of the disease through ensuring "social" (physical) distancing. Nearly 1.725 billion children in over 95% of countries…
Descriptors: School Closing, Access to Education, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Davy Tsz Kit Ng; Xiaoxuan Fang – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
Due to the varied social inequities, the pandemic has prompted unprecedented attention to the social divides in learning gains via online/blended learning. It has been identified that approximately 27,000 Chinese cross-border students live on the Mainland but attend Hong Kong schools every day. The pandemic has restricted the passage of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Student Attitudes, COVID-19
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Thapa, Sandesh; Sotang, Neha; Adhikari, Janak; Ghimire, Anup; Limbu, Anka Kumari; Joshi, Arpana; Adhikari, Sandhya – Pedagogical Research, 2020
The official announcement of COVID-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 by World Health Organization (WHO), the world economy has abruptly declined, billions of people are in lockdown, maintaining self-isolation. In this survey, 150 respondents were selected randomly and this survey intends to highlight the impact of lockdown in agriculture…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disease Control, School Closing, Agricultural Education
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Allotey, Pascale; Reidpath, Daniel; Certain, Edith; Vahedi, Mahnaz; Maher, Dermot; Launois, Pascal; Ross, Bella – Open Praxis, 2021
This study uses a case study approach to examine the development of a massive open online course (MOOC) on intervention and implementation research in infectious diseases of poverty for learners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Implementation research (IR) seeks to understand and address barriers to effective implementation of health…
Descriptors: Open Education, Online Courses, Access to Education, Program Development
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Mengistie, Tilahun Adamu – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 at the end of 2019 lifted 2020 of the world in turmoil. Now, the world is absolutely in a unique environment. In all corners, today, the scientific world accompanies huge consequences from the novel coronavirus. The economic, social, educational, and political aspects of the world get into the abnormal conditions. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers
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Thin Zaw, Phyu Phyu; McNeil, Edward; Oo, Kyaw; Liabsuetrakul, Tippawan; Htay, Thien Thien – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
Sexuality education in school is important for students' reproductive health; however, devising ways of tailoring it to the needs of a particular society can be challenging. We compared preferences for type of sexuality education in high schools and the level of knowledge of reproductive health among students, parents and teachers in Myanmar. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Preferences, Knowledge Level
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