The use of e-learning methods in higher education is rapidly increasing worldwide. However, the relationship between students' acceptance of e-learning methods and their psychological adaptation remains uncertain. Events such as a global pandemic have brought significant changes to higher education while accelerating the popularity of e-learning.…

Nature experiences have been shown to have a number of positive impacts on adults and children (Louv, 2012; Williams, 2017). These benefits include an improvement of one's ability to direct their attention, a reduction in the symptoms of stress, and an increase in creative play. Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989), Stress…

This study examines the perceptions of children and parents regarding the quality of school life, focusing on emotional, social, and academic dimensions. It is guided by Katz's 1994 theoretical framework emphasizing bottom-up (children's) and outside-inside (parents') perspectives. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with seven families of…

Responding to globalisation, neoliberalism, and its attendant imperatives (e.g. internationalisation, economic competitiveness), Kazakhstan, like many other countries, introduced a trilingual policy and English medium instruction (EMI) reforms in schools. Research on EMI suggests that purported affordances aside, EMI can also entail potential…

Introduction: School-based prevention efforts to support social and emotional learning in adolescence frequently struggle to demonstrate sizable impact, and scholars suggest this may be due to a lack of curricular alignment with adolescent developmental needs. Using co-design methods, this study invited high school students to refine and revise…

This research explores student perceptions of national and international painting competitions organized by school administrations in secondary schools. The study research group comprises 400 students enrolled in grades five through eight at a secondary school in the Çankaya district of Ankara province in Türkiye during the 2023-2024 academic…

University students are at higher risk of suicide than other categories of the population due to the complex mix of the university environment. Using the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS), this study examines the psychosocial circumstances that lead Ghanaian university students, with the case of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and…

Due to its importance in second/foreign language (L2) learning, anxiety appears to be one of the most important individual differences (IDs). Still, learners' experiences of anxiety tend to vary considerably, so we set out to investigate the anxiety levels, reported in our large-scale quantitative study involving 1,152 secondary school language…

Executive functions (EF) have been identified as important predictors of children's proximal and distal development. Recent research highlights pretend play as a potential mechanism for EF development, and there has been a call to identify for whom pretense in most beneficial. The current study investigated whether an association found between…

This article is an extended discussion from the recent opening presentation for the Annual Winchester Advanced 'Philosophy for Children' Seminar in Climate Change Education, Hope and Philosophy for Children. The presentation and text originate from Rosamonde Birch's (2019) Masters' dissertation research discerning hope through an Education for…

This study aimed to examine the relations between educational and interpersonal identity trajectories and psychosocial functioning based on a three-factor identity process model. A total of 968 Japanese adolescents including 13- and 16-years-olds (49.7% female) participated in a four-wave longitudinal study. Latent class growth analysis extracted…

Although Kolb's experiential learning model has been widely used and remains among the most influential frameworks in the fields of human resource development, management education and higher education, it has been criticized for failing to propose a second-order learning process. The purpose of this study was to revise Kolb's model by addressing…

Previous studies regarding the effect of experiencing anger on creative performance have shown controversial findings. Some studies have reported that anger hampers creative performance, whereas others have shown that anger promotes cognitive motivation and improves creative performance. Anger is associated with hostility, threats, and conflict,…

The aim of this paper is to map a line of theorizing affect and its entanglement with post-truth, and use this theorization to think about what it could mean for the role of educators--that is, what can be done in education to respond critically to the affective infrastructures of post-truth politics? This question arises at a historical juncture…

In Aristotelian virtue theories, "phronesis" is foundational to being good, but to date accounts of how this particularly important virtue can emerge are sketchy. This article plumbs recent thinking in Aristotelian virtue ethics and developmental theorizing to explore how far its emergence can be understood developmentally, i.e., in…