Higher Education Institutions are increasingly facing challenges in designing courses that enable students to develop the transdisciplinary knowledge, skills and understanding needed to engage with complex 'wicked' problems. This article reports on a conceptual framework for STEAM in Higher Education (HE), in which design thinking is interwoven…

Older learners of English in ESL contexts are an underserved learner type. Courses typically do not cater to their age-related cognitive and physiological needs and link curriculum content with their typical everyday life activities. This study presents go-along teaching (GAT) as a pedagogical approach for older migrant learners of English by…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the use of ChatGPT as a lesson-planning assistant with preservice teachers (PSTs) of secondary mathematics. PSTs asked ChatGPT to solve a mathematics problem and to assist with lesson planning in a microteaching context in a methods course. The PSTs first developed parts of their microteaching…

Selecting texts that can support young readers is essential work for teachers because the 'right' text provides readers with opportunities to demonstrate their skills, strategies and comprehension. Text complexity guides offer teachers one way to select those texts, but despite these pedagogical supports, many readers continue to struggle with…

"Game-Based Approaches in Physical Education: International Applications" presents 22 chapters, including 18 teaching units to be applied in physical education or youth sport, divided into 4 categories of games and an additional category of performance activities. This book combines the pedagogical, academic, and practical knowledge of a…

Research on artificial intelligence (AI) in education has revealed a significant gap in understanding the complex relationship between AI, self-regulation, and teachers' pedagogical practices in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study adopts a cross-sectional study that uses exploratory survey aimed at investigating ChatGPT's role in the future…

The goal of the current study was to look at the viewpoints of secondary school Agricultural Science teachers with regard to the challenges they encounter when implementing the curriculum in their classrooms. Instructional resources and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme workshops need to be provided to successfully teach the…

This study examines at how e-learning readiness and the Community of Inquiry framework affect higher education students' preferences for various teaching delivery modes. In the study, Latent Class Analysis was used to profile the participants based on autonomous learning attributes, which is the pedagogical sub-dimension of e-learning readiness.…

This article examines Ibn Khaldun's educational philosophy through the lens of contemporary children's geographies. Drawing on his reflections in the "Muqaddimah," we analyze historical teaching practices in medieval North Africa and Muslim Spain, focusing on their implications for child development, spatial learning, and moral…

When designing assessments such as examinations, it is important to consider which materials students should be permitted to access during the assessment, for example, whether to allow students access to a relevant book, such as a literary text. Debates among teachers and assessment professionals highlight differing views about the advantages and…

This study explores the role of creative arts in professional learning through a trauma-informed education (TIE) event for mentor and pre-service teachers. TIE requires educators to make complex relational shifts with students and to cultivate classrooms that promote safety, empathy, and empowerment. The professional learning event integrated…

This paper explores the affordances of learning experiences gained in undergraduate students' professional ethics courses during the pandemic. The article also touches upon the possible contributions of the practices within the scope of the professional ethics course to students' professional and personal lives. Action research was used.…

Drawing on research that informs effective literacy practices, this book pushes back on singular ideologies, programs, and divisive rhetoric and, instead, embraces an inclusive perspective for supporting literacy development and learning. Readers are encouraged to move beyond debates that divide us and look toward the hard but necessary work of…

Co-written by a teacher educator and his students, this practical resource shares the ways a uniquely positioned graduate course implemented key tenets of Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogy (CRSP) in their teaching and practice, allowing for the reconnection between mind and body, or "Embodied CRSP." By weaving together…

The Online Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire (OSLQ) is a widely used self-report instrument for assessing student self-regulated learning (SRL). Despite its prevalence, the dimensionality of the OSLQ is often unclear across different populations, and its item-level characteristics remain underexplored. This study investigates the psychometric…