Background: The transition to adulthood in contemporary industrialized society, which once followed a fairly standard pattern, has undergone many changes in terms of timing and order of events. Today's emerging adults are as likely as not to postpone their entry to college after high school, withdraw temporarily from studies after enrolling, and…

Background: Epistemological beliefs and motivational factors are significant predictors of achievement in science. Purpose: To understand how social context factors shape epistemological beliefs and motivational factors and how they pass the influences to achievement in science. Sample: A population of ninth graders in an underdeveloped region of…

Objective: Although role-play is a common pedagogic strategy in sexuality education, there has been little guidance to help educators in crafting and facilitating effective role-plays. This integrative review summarises existing literature on the effects and effectiveness of role-play, who may benefit from role-play, and what guidelines exist to…

Interlingual subtitle reading is cognitively demanding, with audio information being in viewers' foreign language. Chinese subtitle reading is particularly effortful, as the lack of inter-word markers intensifies viewers' effort to delineate linguistic units. This study aims to explore whether segmenting Chinese subtitles with spaces may impact…

In Australia, urban vertical schools are relatively new and invite new aspirations for education. Aspirations are often represented in educational leadership literature and architecture in terms of a shared vision guiding decisions and creating alignment between an imagined school design and the realised educational experience. As well as…

Parents are key stakeholders in the production of human capital, acting as primary investors in allocating resources for their child's education. These decisions are fundamental in shaping children's future outcomes. How do parents invest in their children's education based on their academic abilities? Do they reinforce the advantages of…

In the territory currently known as Canada, the work of decolonization, Indigenization, and reconciliation within postsecondary institutions is understood as the work of all educators, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Yet non-Indigenous faculty often struggle to engage, if they engage at all. This article explores barriers for non-Indigenous…

This study investigates a new model of Yellow River cultural education using virtual reality (VR) photography to enhance cultural learning and identity formation. A mixed-methods case study design was employed, with a focus on the Yellow River Guardian VR exhibition. The participants included 30 university students, 10 audience members, and 5…

Teachers' knowledge about mathematical content affects students' mathematics learning outcomes. This study aimed to identify the knowledge of pre-service primary school teachers about mathematical contents. Within a quantitative methodological approach, 150 respondents (58 Papuans and 92 non-Papuans) were involved in this study. An evaluation was…

From 1493 to 1507, Hernando de Talavera, the first archbishop of Granada after the Spanish Reconquista, ran a residential school for Morisco noble boys in his palace. This article argues that Talavera's school set the foundation for the long history of residential schooling as a tool to transform or eradicate a conquered culture through the…

Linguistic ethnographers are invested in empirically studying, rather than presupposing, social problems that are produced in language. Their dialogue with subjects who experience these problems helps explain why fields such as sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology are considered critical. This article critiques the criticality in this…

Research on exemplars in higher education is extensive. In most studies, students analyse exemplars "before" creating their own work to help them better understand the assessment requirements and produce higher quality work. Recently, students have been asked to analyse exemplars "after" producing work. In these studies,…

This reflection critically examines corporal punishment in Indian schools, highlighting how pedagogical violence perpetuates caste and socioeconomic class inequalities. Drawing from my fieldwork experiences, I explore how my insider/outsider positionality helped me to understand systemic oppression and frameworks of modernity within the neoliberal…

In today's global and hyperconnected world, the job market, the higher education environment, and society are becoming increasingly international and complex in orientation. New challenges and opportunities are constantly flowing in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment. There is a need for people to navigate through cultural…

Purpose: The international body of research on crises and school leadership is expanding, yet studies focusing on this theme within the Nordic context remain limited, predominantly addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article aims to examine contemporary research on leadership and crisis management in Nordic education to elucidate…