National and international trends in special education policy and legislation led to a significant increase in the number of students with disabilities in general education classrooms. Now more than ever, teachers face the challenge of educating students with disabilities in general education classrooms (McLeskey & Waldron, 2011; Smith &…

This scholarly personal narrative explores the use of contemplative practices by teachers to support the development of authentic relationships with their students. The narrative demonstrates the value of contemplative practices in education by telling the story of the author's first seven years as a Waldorf teacher and the contemplative practices…

For this 15th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2022), the conference was held in Durham, England, with an online hybrid format for virtual participation as well. EDM is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society. The theme of this year's conference is Inclusion,…

The goal of our article is to consider the intersection of the peer ecology and teacher practices for students' academic motivation. We begin by reviewing two perspectives that explain why and how peers matter for students' motivation. First, the quality of peer relationships and interactions provide affordances for "social support."…

One of the most notable effects that COVID-19 has engendered in education is the ICT use in teaching at all educational levels. This study provides data on the ICT usage by teachers in the teaching of Music in Secondary Education in Andalusia (Spain). It also explores the relationship between ICT practices and teachers' perceptions of the…

The purpose of this study was to assess students' satisfaction with the practices and implementation of nonregular education programs (NREPs) with particular regard to Haramaya University (HU), Ethiopia. To achieve the aim of the study, an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design, which initially allows collecting quantitative data and…

Community colleges have an opportunity to promote achievement of more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and meet larger goals of scientific advancement and educational equity. Understanding community college students' needs and backgrounds is key to increasing students' success in STEM fields and realizing this…

Curriculum, as an expression of legitimate knowledge, should be seen as something political rather than technical, that is, as the result of complex power relations and struggles among identifiable stakeholder groups. In Shanghai, curricular reform, which traditionally assumes the crucial task of cultivating responsible citizens, has sought to…

This study aims to examine how 21st-century skills are implemented in the Israeli education system. For a better, in-depth understanding of the reasons underlying the manner in which said skills are implemented among educators in Israel, Hofstede's cultural dimension theory was applied as an analytical tool. This is a pioneer research and…

During the past thirty years, student (or pupil) voice has gained attention in education policy especially in many Western countries, accelerated by both the acceptance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1990 and an emphasis on accountability in schools. Multifaceted and complex, student voice in schools…

This article presents the foundational praxes to what values, services, and praxes should be in place for Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTI). Each praxis includes questions and provides actions that each NASNTI should start examining and addressing. These praxes are imperative and interconnected to each other in building a…

Learning how to engage students in educationally purposeful activities has been a challenge for instructors in higher education. It is often hard to push through institutionalized pedagogical boundaries rooted in traditional "teach-at-you" approaches to learning. The demands of a more diverse student body and more effective measures of…

The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of how critical reflection can be used to update and revise teaching practices in response to evolving student needs and challenges in higher education. The authors identify the types of challenges that faculty and graduate students face in the current educational environment. Generational…

This study was designed to determine how occupational therapy practitioners currently approach their interventions with students on their caseloads who are grieving, as well as to identify what occupational therapy practitioners believe they require in order to expand their current practice as it relates to supporting the needs of grieving…

After 40 years as a hardworking and productive academic, here I was on a Zoom call fronting two senior colleagues telling me I no longer appeared on the new 'organisational chart'. In short, I was being made redundant. It was no surprise really, as another 40,000 professional and academic staff were to suffer the same fate. And really by then I…