Sport management curricula at universities across the United States often require one or more classes on legal issues of sport. Most often, the topic of risk management (RM) is not covered as extensively as necessary with venues and events being targets of violence and terrorism. Do graduating sport management students understand RM in a way where…

This paper presents findings from a review of 19 national curriculum policy frameworks (NCPFs) across the globe and discusses dominant and culturally specific discourses that shape early childhood education (ECE). We combine two frameworks of developmental universality and specificity and culturally contextualised pedagogy to explore whether and…

Research on the effects of second language (L2) listening strategy instruction (SI) has gained momentum in recent years (e.g. Vandergrift & Tafaghodtari, 2010). However, the reported results have been inconclusive and varied across studies. Synthesizing the results of quantitative research in this domain, the present meta-analysis sought to…

Religious and Moral Education (RME) in primary schools has been an under-researched aspect of state-funded schooling in Scotland. It has received little scholarly comment, and even less empirical research has been conducted on the extent and nature of provision since the implementation of Scotland's "Curriculum for Excellence" from 2010…

In recent years, "Decolonising the Curriculum (DtC)" has been widely discussed and advocated in the European educational landscape as part of inclusive education. However, few examples of its practice in Japanese language teaching have been reported. While discussions of DtC in Japan often focus on the context of Japan's former colonies,…

Creating culturally responsive learning environments stands as a pivotal objective for 21st-century classrooms to foster inclusive and equitable education. This phenomenological inquiry explores the perceptions and practices of classroom teachers regarding Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) within the educational context of Türkiye. To this end,…

To attend to educators' experiences as they work in the midst of competing demands, increased classroom complexity, and a growing understanding of the importance of well-being, a group of stakeholders from across Saskatchewan co-developed a microcertificate entitled Trauma-Informed/Sensitive Pedagogies and Practices. The microcertificate was…

In this five-year co-curricular-making project, participants individually and collectively engage in the messiness of ongoing meaning-making. Such curricular terrain acknowledges the particulars of individuals and place to provide the needed context as 100+ practicing and 140+ prospective educators seek un/decolonized and Indigenized co-curricular…

This study examines the role of international education the Primary Years Programme (PYP), in mitigating authoritarian tendencies within Poland's early childhood education (ECE) system. Employing qualitative content analysis of legislation and media reports, the research examines how these programmes apply constructivist theory and seeks to…

The integration of Indigenous knowledges into education is increasingly recognized as integral to creating culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies, particularly in mathematics and science. This study explores Ghanaian primary school teachers' knowledge and understanding of Indigenous Ghanaian knowledges (IGK) and their potential integration…

Students in adult education (AE) programs have limited access to quality writing instruction due to lack of empirical research. The current study is part of a larger research project to design and test the feasibility and effectiveness of a writing curriculum based on strategy instruction with self-regulation. We present the findings of our…

Objectives: Game development students have a daunting career ahead of them, complicated by competitive industry hiring, the passion behind digital media and entertainment work, and inequitable work cultures. By understanding the work-life experiences of graduated game development students in digital media careers, higher education curriculum can…

This study investigated the thematic and lexical characteristics of high-difficulty English reading items--commonly referred to as "killer questions"--in the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) between 2018 and 2025. Using text mining methods, including Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and CEFR-based lexical profiling, the…

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture--music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms--and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically, and strategically. Part One draws on qualitative research with young people, as well as close analyses of pop…

This paper offers a unique comparative study on primary and secondary education in opposition-held and regime-held Syrian schools since the beginning of the conflict in 2011. Doing so, it seeks to investigate whether and how education upholds visions of peace and conflict in the country. Building on schoolbook content analysis, semi-structured…