The article introduces a design-and-effects-framework comprising five key features of effective professional development: (1) extended Duration, (2) Content Focus of input, (3) Coherence of input with practice, (4) Collegial Participation, and (5) Active Learning. The framework's general feasibility is investigated in a proof-of-concept study.…

The landscape of higher education is rapidly evolving, presenting both new opportunities and significant challenges. In our interconnected world, institutions of higher learning must not only transmit knowledge but also actively address the social, economic, and cultural issues arising from diverse and dynamic societies. This book offers a…

A social ecological framework is proposed that identifies institutional supports to increase public scholarship. The framework offers an analytical structure for conceptualizing how motivations interact at multiple levels of influence, as well as utility to increase epistemic equity and encourage behavior change through institutional supports that…

This basic, exploratory qualitative dissertation study (Van Schyndel, 2022) examined professional identity development of communityengaged practitioner-scholars through their participation in a U.S.- based community engagement professional association's graduate student fellowship program. Semistructured interviews with 15 program alumni revealed…

Engineering instructors play a crucial role in developing a positive culture in their classes. However, few studies have explored integrating teaching pedagogies to convey a culture of care and support students' mental health and well-being (MHWB) in engineering education contexts. It is critical to advance knowledge in this area considering the…

The characteristics of institutional work in higher education change is an understudied topic in research. This article describes an institutional change process in higher education by analysing multilevel institutional work. Drawing on the results, the paper presents a modified process model on the multilevel institutional work and the related…

This article shares findings from an 18-month research project at Te Whai Hiringa, a primary school in Hawke's Bay, where over 90% of learners identify as Maori, or Pacific peoples. The project explored how play-based learning and culturally sustaining pedagogy can be integrated into a single, purposeful approach. Drawing on the Play-Based…

Cultivating Black joy is critical, given censorship placed in schools, on Black bodies, and in the curriculum. This article conceptualizes how the dimensions of culturally responsive teaching practices can help reclaim and reconstruct Black students' sense of well-being in the classroom and their sense of Black Joy. Furthermore, this conceptual…

This study aims to explore the relationship between organisational commitment dimensions and moonlighting intentions. Using a sample of 189 teachers from various higher educational institutions (HEIs), the study employs Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to examine the impact of organisational commitment dimensions (affective, continuance,…

This paper discusses what constitutes good teaching, taking as its cue the 'aesthetic' concept treated in everyday aesthetics and 'internal good' accounted by McIntyre. Teaching is viewed as practice, not merely as a basic action, due to its epistemological nature as everyday work. What everyday aesthetics teaches us is that even in the practice…

Self-regulated learning (SRL)-promoting practices enhance students' positive academic, social, and emotional development. While effective, these practices are complex and often difficult for teacher candidates (TCs) to learn and implement. This theoretical review presents the benefits and challenges of SRL-promoting practices and examines how TCs'…

Enlightened by a student teaching presentation in a foundational educational studies course, I became committed to recognizing and unlearning practices of colonialism and oppression in my classrooms and teaching practice. Using critical autoethnography as the mode of inquiry, and drawing relationships between the Characteristics of White Supremacy…

Following the West, China exhibits a proactive attitude and conservative actions to developing entrepreneurial universities. This article deconstructs such a paradoxical approach by analysing the scholarly literature, policy discourses, and empirical data and their various perceptions of entrepreneurial universities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).…

This study explored how institutions can empower minoritized graduate students by leveraging their existing forms of capital, shifting from a deficit view to an assets-based approach. Through qualitative case study methodology, data from interviews and documentation illustrated the vital role of institutional agents, such as faculty and staff,…

Universities are generally understood as organizations that extend knowledge based on codified bodies of work developed from systematic research and scholarship. This article examines the emergence of an organizational form that increasingly competes in contemporary higher education: the therapeutic university. A recent phenomenon, the therapeutic…