The aim of this study is to set out to explore how children living in Polish-English transnational families in the UK develop "symbolic competence" and "symbolic power" in home settings. By focusing on the children's use of metaphor in family discourse when talking about the Moon, from a cognitive discursive perspective, this…

Research in organizational theory takes as a key premise the notion that organizations are "actors." Organizational actorhood, or agency, depends, in part, on how external audiences perceive organizations. In other words, organizational agency requires that external audiences take organizations "to be" agents. Yet little…

Purpose: Evidence increasingly indicates that people with developmental stuttering have auditory perception deficits. Our previous research has indicated similar but slower performance in categorical perception of the speech sounds under the quiet condition in children who stutter and adults who stutter (AWS) compared with their typically fluent…

The current study is based on thematic analysis of 21,722 tweets posted under the #wedontwantdistanceeducation hashtag within a month after the start of online distance education in Turkish universities due to COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings have revealed that Turkish higher education students have faced multiple challenges in accessing and…

Communication skills are important in life, especially in a clinical setting. The NVC (non-violent communication) model facilitates communication skills in schools, hospitals, and other environments. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of NVC in fostering the communication skills of nursing students. The study included a…

The study was carried out to examine the extent of Students' Usage of WhatsApp Instant Messenger as a Supporting Tool for Learning in Kaduna State, Nigeria. A survey research design was adopted in the study. Five tertiary institutions were randomly selected based on security guarantee for the study. All final year students in tertiary institutions…

In recent years, cyberbullying on social media sites has increased among adolescents and even adults. While there are many factors and forms of cyberbullying, schoolchildren are vulnerable groups that are exposed to cyberbullying threats to their mental and emotional health. On the other hand, teachers have the responsibility in the place of the…

Diversity education has been highlighted in recent professional and news media. We build upon previous work of one of the authors as we describe needed characteristics of instructors of diversity education. In addition to content knowledge, we suggest that communication skills, empathy, reflective assessment practices, the ability to obtain and…

The purpose of this research is to determine the perception of a group of students on the impact of a virtual platform for interaction and social learning in the B-Learning model. It was framed in the quantitative approach, at a descriptive level through fieldwork, using a survey as a source of information collection. The sample of 131…

In this paper, we utilize poetic methods that seek to surface, but not overdetermine, the unanticipated relational excess produced through literacy practices. Karen, a queer white woman, and Jordan, a cis-gendered heterosexual Black man, wrote a series of letters to one another throughout the Spring 2020 semester. We turned to critical poetic…

This study attempted to determine if placing videos in an asynchronous course influenced the learning experience. Data were examined for an introductory college statistics course comparing results pre and post implementation of videos in support of discussions, assignments, homework, quizzes, and exams. Frequency of external tutoring was…

Many studies emphasise the need for supporting higher education students to develop general competences. In this study, we report on the first cycle of a designbased research project conducted in the Design Factory context. The aim of the project is to understand how general competences can be integrated into course modules and within…

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is a paramount issue in EFL teaching and learning. This paper intends to systematically review the existing research on EFL teachers' and pre-service teachers' intercultural communicative competence (ICC). The authors reviewed a total of 19 peer-reviewed studies on teachers' and pre-service teachers'…

This article examines several vexing problems faced by faculty within leadership programs including university finances, balancing teaching, service, and research responsibilities, burnout, poor communication, and structural barriers to creating diversity among faculty. Using insights from practitioners and my experiences, I also share strategies…

This research aimed to investigate how achievement emotions predict, mediate, and affect academic achievement in online learning. Online learning has been proliferating, but little is known about how emotion mediates cognition in the Community of Inquiry framework. Recent progress in cognitive neuroscience provided the theoretical foundation for…