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Students' Attitude towards Arabic Language Varieties: The Case of the Fu??a Arabic
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Husein, Alhassan Abdur-Rahim – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2017
Arabic speaking countries live in diglossic communities. This is where two or more varieties of a language are used by the same speech community. This paper examines students' attitude towards Arabic language varieties. It focuses mainly on Egyptian students' attitude towards the fu??a on one hand and the Egyptian Arabic (EA) variety on the other.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Semitic Languages, Language Variation
Reasons for Non-Appearance on Organized Cervical Screening in Hungary
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Pakai, Annamária; Brantmüller, Éva; Réka, Vajda; Karácsony, Ilona; Balázs, Péter – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2016
The occurrence of cervix cancer is outstandingly high in Zala County, which is situated in the Western Transdanubian region of Hungary. The aim of our study was to reveal why women do not take the opportunity offered by the state and what reasons there are for the nonattendance at screenings. A total of 1000 Hungarian women aged 15 to 60 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cancer, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Screening Tests
Pedagogical Aspects of Voluntary School Work
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Mária Jármai, Erzsébet; Palányi, Ildikó Zsupanekné – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
The economic importance of voluntary work has been exceedingly appreciated in the last few decades. This is not surprising at all, because it is highly profitable according to the related estimated data. There are 115,9 million people doing voluntary work only in Europe, which means that they would create the world's 7th biggest economy with EUR…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Volunteers, Labor Market, Labor Force Development
Comparison the Psychological Wellbeing of University Students from Hungary and Romania
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Barth, Anita; Nagy, Ildikó; Kiss, János – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
The results obtained in our research of mental distress indicators and results of conflict management strategies are consistent with the results of international studies. Students participating in the study (N = 237) reached the highest average results in the field of personal growth, while we measured the lowest value in the fields of autonomy…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Well Being, College Students, Foreign Countries
Compulsory Book Reading at School and within Leisure
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Pavlovic, Slavica – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
This paper deals with attitudes of secondary school pupils towards compulsory book reading at school, being the integral part of the subject Croat language and literature teaching subject, and its possible impact on their book (not-)reading in their leisure time. It is based on the research carried out through five-point Likert-type scale in…
Descriptors: Books, Recreational Reading, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
Professional Attitudes of the Teachers in Implementation of a School-Based Programme about Prevention of the Use Psychoactive Substances in 5-7 Grade
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Kozhuharova, Penka Petkova – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
The subject of the research is the planning, implementation and evaluation of the program about prevention of the use of psychoactive substances among students 5-7 grade. The study was conducted by survey method with 314 teachers who teach in twenty-six schools. The qualification of the teachers to work with the program about prevention was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6