To date, EFL teachers are ever more anticipated to become intercultural educators, supporting intercultural communicative competence for both teachers and students in language classrooms filled with cultural diversity. Using a mixed-methods design, the study integrates quantitative data from a self-report survey with interviews, as it looks into…

Instructional coaches collaborate with in-service and pre-service teachers through dialogue and reflection in order to improve instruction for their students. In this qualitative study we learned from three exemplar coaches who used elements of coaching in their supervision of pre-service teachers. The coaches reflected on how they navigated the…

Social constructivism is a learning approach in which students actively construct their own knowledge by way of experiences and interactions with others. As such, it is important to highlight both individual and group-based reflection practices in pre-service teacher training as a key aspect for improving teaching practice. This paper presents the…

For more than a decade, the authors have engaged in several collaborative action research projects in established communities of practice, generating new knowledge and promoting practice development in religious education (RE) in schools and higher education. Based on this, this article asks what characterised the collaborative processes, and how…

This study aimed to investigate the effects of gamification on active and reflective learners' engagement and cognitive load. It also compared both groups' experiences in a 10-week gamification process. It employed triangulation, one of the mixed research designs in this study. Participants consisted of 70 undergraduate students (45 active, 25…

Practical, or laboratory, work is a common pedagogical strategy used in school science classrooms, yet its effectiveness for enhancing student learning is contested. Developing teachers' pedagogical knowledge about planning for practical work can improve its effectiveness by ensuring that tasks are well-conceived and effective for linking what…

We know that making mistakes in mathematics is an inherent attribute of doing mathematics deeply. Yet, making mistakes is at the root of mathematical fear and anxiety for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs). Valuing mistakes in mathematics is an essential part of shifting from deficient views to asset views of mistakes and having better…

The related literature implies that phenomenographic arguments on teaching conception are primarily developed for in-service teachers or university educators. There is also an ongoing tenet among educational phenomenographers that instructors' conceptions of teaching are inquired into by discriminating teacher-centered and student-centered modes…

This article addresses the pedagogical practices applied by teachers at pre and primary school level when working with children with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) as well as potential challenges in a research collaboration between teachers and academics. A praxeological study was conducted with two preschool teachers and…

Our survey of literature on moral dilemmas in teaching reveals that scholars declare the need to unequivocally resolve them yet refrain from doing so. This phenomenon is rooted in falure to distinguish between the different moral conflicts. The methods of resolving abstract hypothetical dilemmas, advocated but not implemented by the scholars, are…

This study examined the preliminary impact of a contemplative practice intervention on the implicit racial biases of 22 participants enrolled in teacher preparation courses using a mixed-methods, pre/post-test design. Quantitative analyses determined whether there were statistically significant differences in implicit racial bias before and after…

In this chapter, we purport that "excessive entitlement" is directly linked to concepts of self/identity with the belief that how we come to regard self in relation to the Other is implicitly and explicitly taught. We view excessive entitlement as a manifestation of the privilege and infallibility of educators who take for granted the…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to explore how novice elementary teachers in the southern United States describe the role of spontaneous and conscious decision-making to influence their instructional practice. Two research questions were developed using the cognitive experiential self-theory and decision-making theory which…

A growing diversity of classroom designs, broadly labeled as active learning classrooms, is a rising development across higher education institutions. Along with the construction of these new spaces, stakeholders have developed new vocabularies and concepts for articulating and identifying the impact of new classroom designs for teaching and…

Educator reflective practice is fundamental to quality early childhood education with robust practice benefitting pedagogy and improving outcomes for children. Yet, examination of individual and collaborative reflective practice in experienced professional early childhood teams is scarce. This qualitative case study used an action research design…