Whether a broad undergraduate curriculum prepares students well for academic and professional specialization is a much-debated question. This discussion is particularly relevant in the context of European liberal arts bachelor's programmes, which recently re-emerged as an exception to the continental norm of specialized undergraduate curricula.…

There is a growing body of research arguing that, alongside education in climate science literacy, our education systems need a deeper, broader, and more interdisciplinary education in climate literacy. Specifically, the push is to reframe climate literacy from a narrow competence taught in science classes to a broad socioscientific and cultural…

This paper examines gender disparities in university student pathways in Italy, from initial enrolment to completion of a bachelor's degree and enrolment in a subsequent master's programme. While it is established that females generally outperform males in completion rates and final grades, little has been done to analyse retention up to the…

This study examines the tuition elasticity of student enrollment for a public regional comprehensive master's university, Pittsburg State University in Kansas. Tuition elasticity is a measure of the responsiveness of student enrollment decisions due to changes in tuition over time. This measure is useful as it indicates how changes in tuition…

This study explores how seven middle and secondary teachers understood and developed ambitious pedagogies within the context of their own classroom. Although there has been an emphasis on preparing preservice teachers for utilizing ambitious pedagogies, these practices are often not observed in practicing teachers' classrooms. The purpose of this…

Initial pre-service teacher training should include insights and learning that are closely related to classroom practice. In this paper, we analyse the expectations voiced by pre-service teachers studying toward a master's degree in secondary education as well as by in-service teachers. Both groups participated in a 6-month professional…

The current teacher shortage across Australia is significant. Various stakeholders have contributed to the discourse around this shortage, and different solutions have been implemented, including using conditionally accredited preservice teachers to fill the gaps. However, the voices of these preservice teachers have been largely missing from…

Purpose: Co-teaching is a foundational mentoring model used in teacher residency programs in urban classrooms throughout the United States of America. Beyond the basic understanding of co-teaching in categorizing classroom models, the purpose of this qualitative case study is to investigate the dialectical tensions manifested in mentored…

In this study, we explored the lived experiences of secondary school agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) teachers enrolled in, or who recently completed a practitioner-oriented master's degree in AFNR Education at [University]. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews, and interviews were informed by Appreciative Inquiry…

Background: Education is increasingly a bureaucratized, standardized and regulated service in which everything is decided by the 'experts'. There is an abandonment of the concept of education centred on the subject, social progress and collective transformation. Thus, education in general and teacher-training in particular, need innovative…

This paper draws attention to how markers of adulthood linked to education and employment form an influential social narrative and argues that these help to construct teenage motherhood as problematic. Social policies, informed by this narrative, reinforce the idea of a "correct" path through education and into employment from which…

The present work aims to explore the knowledge that the students of the Master's Degree in Teaching at the University of La Laguna have about the functions of educational guidance and their role as teachers and tutors. To this end, this paper presents a review of the role of educational guidance in a Secondary Education center and the role of the…

Purpose: This study aims to analyse the self-perception of future secondary school teachers (FTs) of biology about their education for sustainable development (ESD) competencies and evaluate the competence profile they develop in their educational proposals. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed methodological approach was used to analyse 162 FTs'…

Curriculum strategies on social justice in education often focus on classroom management and technology integration, which may be surface-level approaches. Emerging trends include project-based learning and community partnerships for students to address real-world problems; as such, selected courses employ service-learning as a method of…

Debates on the philosophical interpretations of quantum physics have motivated a renewed interest in how secondary and lower undergraduate students interpret quantum phenomena. In an attempt to contribute to this effort, this paper examines the dynamics of perspective in quantum physics in the context of teacher education. The goal of the study is…