Noise, what noise? Raising awareness of auditory health among future primary-school teachers
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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10481/77227Metadata
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Elsevier
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Classroom intervention Health education Noise Prevention University students
Date
2012Referencia bibliográfica
M.-P. Jiménez-Tejada et al. Noise, what noise? Raising awareness of auditory health among future primary-school teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education 28 (2012) 1083-1090 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2012.06.002]
Abstract
We study the perception of acoustic contamination and its deleterious effects on students preparing to
become school teachers and analyse their acoustic habits, with the aim of raising their awareness concerning this problem. We designed a number of activities, applied during a practical lesson, in which
students evaluated some of their perceptions and attitudes towards noise, and recorded their hearing
capacity. Students increased their noise awareness after performing the practice. We propose the
introduction of activities similar to those proposed here, to prevent hearing loss from exposure to noise
and promote such preventive activities among these future school teachers.