Although scholars have noted the detrimental nature of the various changes in higher education prompted by neoliberalism, its impact on the experiences of international Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students has yet to be adequately studied. Informed by Bourdieu's concepts of "doxa," field, habitus, and capital, this paper examines the…

This annotated bibliography is the fifth in a series published in "Montessori Life," with the first review of articles published during the 10-year time span of 1996-2006 (Bagby, 2007); the second covering 2007-2009 (Bagby & Jones, 2010); the third, 2010-2013 (Bagby, Wells, Edmondson & Thompson, 2014); and the fourth, 2014-2017…

In this article, we describe rehearsals designed for use in professional development (PD) with secondary mathematics teachers to support them in reimagining and refining their practice. We detail a theoretical framework for learning in PD that informs our rehearsal design. We then share evidence of secondary mathematics teachers' improvements in…

The paper characterises the learning and teaching process with a focus on higher education and describes the basics of contemporary theories of learning and teaching. Against this conceptual background, the interweaving of performance indicators and theories and practice of learning and teaching is analysed. For a small, selected number of…

Calls for diversity, inclusion, and equity in chemistry and science education have been ongoing. However, some faculty may find it difficult to challenge systemic inequities due to their pervasiveness. We posit that one working area for addressing systemic inequities in chemistry and science education is the removal of grading on a curve from our…

As data become more available and integrated into daily life, there has been growing interest in developing data science curricula for youth in conjunction with scientific practices and classroom technologies. However, the "what" and "how" of data science in pre-collegiate education have not yet reached consensus. This paper…

In this paper, the argument that we make is that public education emerges from when democracy is put into practice in education. For the purposes of this paper we use pedagogic rights as proposed by Basil Bernstein as a way to frame and support this 'putting into practice'. Democracy, we argue, has to be practiced in two senses: (1) it does not…

"Curriculum Windows Redux: What Curriculum Theorists Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today" is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists in contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from the curriculum field illuminate new…

One of the field of psychology's stated goals is to produce scholarship with findings that benefit the world. Over the last 10 years, psychology scholarship and its presumed societal benefits have been called into question due to the field's history of questionable research practices, racism, and epistemic oppression. Calls for methodological,…

Purpose: This paper is intended to contextualize the major themes of the special issue, "The Intersections of Open Education and Equity Pedagogy" in the "Journal for Multicultural Education," by providing a brief history of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) and highlighting the growing focus…

Despite growing international interest in pedagogical documentation, there is limited research investigating this professional practice. In strengthening the knowledge base, this paper offers textual analysis of material written about pedagogical documentation to enable greater understanding of its nature and purposes. The authors of this paper…

Rooted in critical pedagogy and situated learning theory, this collaborative self-study examined how six teacher educators from different institutions worked to improve their culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) and activism practice. Data sources included participants' weekly journals, critical friends' feedback, and field notes and audio-video…

Differentiation in education can be seen as a means of responding to student diversity in order to meet the vision of "a school for all." Differentiation has been widely addressed within a western context, and it appears to be a versatile phenomenon as it occurs under various guises and with a variety of terms and modes of…

The present article reports a systematic review of the assessment literacy concept in the higher education field. The purpose of the review is to provide an updated overview of theory and research on this topic. Despite the recent changes in culture and practice in the higher education field, assessment literacy is frequently defined as a concept…

The university-as-ecosystem concept provides a framework for the analysis of the dynamic maintenance of sustainable pedagogies within the university. Application of Holling's adaptive cycle, used to describe the active constructive and destructive processes of stabilisation and destabilisation within an ecosystem, is explored here in the context…