Many students are hesitant to provide class input while others are eager to elaborate on their thoughts and feelings about physical education. As a result, some attempts to provide students with a voice risk overlooking students who are already reluctant to express themselves. Systematic approaches to provide voice to all students may help promote…

This article provides an overview of community colleges as an access point to higher education, specifically for individuals without a high school diploma. The article highlights how one community college system is addressing both postsecondary access and workforce demands through policy and practice change. The Louisiana Community and Technical…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to shed light on the association between stakeholders' materiality and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), highlighting how higher education institutions (HEIs) can pursue sustainable development and provide a holistic perspective by mapping material issues. This paper provides a clear understanding of…

The paper engages in 'paradigmatic talk' about public outcomes of higher education (HE). We were drawn to this paradigmatic discussion because of its inherent 'cultural' dimensions and the opportunity for us to be self-reflexive about the ontological values underlying 'cultures' that shape the articulation, representation, and enactment of HE's…

This edited book has been compiled in honor of Thomas S. C. Farrell, one of the most distinguished scholars in theorizing and researching language teacher reflection. It examines teacher reflection in three main areas: policies, practices and the impact of teacher reflection on teachers' practices and professional development. The data-driven…

This paper is a call for "counter-pedagogies of cruelty" and memory as counteractions to colonial technologies of violence, erasure, loss, and linear spatio-temporalities and notions of "progress." In this paper, the authors move across geographic locations in Abya Yala to expose and unpack overlapping and often unnamed…

School leaders face "one of the most important opportunities to influence social justice" (Cambron-McCabe & McCarthy, 2005, p. 208), but they cannot do this work alone. Teachers and school leaders must work together with students and families, who play a key role in student success (Epstein et al., 2009; Johnson, 2014). Too often,…

Shulman (1986) conceptualized pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) at the intersection of content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. In this paper, I re-explore the intersection of content--in our case, mathematics--and pedagogy, not in terms of domains of knowledge, but in terms of domains of practice. I conceptualize, describe, and exemplify…

This article investigates practices that engage preservice teachers' ideas of professionalism within the context of a university-based mentoring programme. The case is explored by observation of mentoring sessions, analysis of documents grounding the mentoring sessions, and mentor and mentee interviews. Practices are investigated through the…

Powerful knowledge facilitates students' access to profound understanding and abstract thinking. In this study, disciplinary knowledge practices and their curricular capacity are examined in regions, i.e. interdisciplinary and professionally oriented degree programmes. Interview data on curriculum knowledge were analysed drawing on Basil…

This project examines similarities and differences in the ways that major U.S. newspapers (e.g., "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," etc.) and the more focused ethnic and minority press (e.g., "The Baltimore Afro-American," "The Milwaukee Courier," etc.) characterize educator's efforts to adopt more…

Approximately 1.3% (42,555 pupils) of secondary school pupils in England are autistic and there are numerous reports of poor academic and social experiences among this group. The intense interests that form part of an autism diagnosis relate to an increased focus on specific topics or objects and are reported to positively impact learning when…

This paper examines police educators' descriptions of development, building on an area of research investigating teachers' perspectives of their practice. The aim of this study was to describe the variation in police educators' teaching development experiences, with these results being used to inform development towards learner-centred practice.…

In the current study, a Dutch whole school Positive Education Programme (PEP) was investigated. PEP is a bottom-up programme, aimed at shifting teacher's attention from solely focusing on learning outcomes towards a more comprehensive approach that takes the wellbeing and engagement of students during classes into account. PEP was investigated…

The aim of the research is to examine the structure of education and training from pre-school to high school in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the States of the Turkic World, and to compare them with each other. In order to achieve this aim, it has been collected through document review from the literature related to each of…