There is continued pressure on universities to develop future-oriented graduates given documented skill gaps and global talent shortages. Although work experience supports work-readiness and is prioritised among graduate employers, little is known about the labour market gains from student employment compared to work experience embedded within the…

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…

Despite intense interest in how social capital can facilitate informal learning, few attempts have been made to synthesize the interface between social capital and informal learning. Social capital is an important factor in the application of informal learning, especially in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)…

Purpose: This viewpoint aims to discuss the transformative role, the current challenges and the outlook of sustainability accounting education (SAE). Design/methodology/approach: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a "social responsibility" to foster competencies and skills for sustainable development within their student bodies…

This study examined how opportunities to incorporate numeracy across different primary curriculum areas and grade levels are highlighted in the Australian Curriculum v9.0. A document analysis approach was used to track the numeracy opportunities in the document across different curriculum areas and grade levels. The results showed that Science has…

Alternative schools often receive a bad connotation when it pertains to student success academically and behaviorally. The implementation of restorative practices can aid in the restoration and building of relationships between students and teachers, which can lead to an increase in student success academically and behaviorally. The purpose of…

In the spring of 2022, we (a teacher-educator from the USA and a Kachin graduate research assistant) interviewed 14 participants from Myanmar who were engaging in an unprecedented educational re-imagining during the Spring Revolution following the 2021 military coup that gripped the county. Three preliminary findings of our study focus on…

To improve student literacy in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, a STEM program was established in an elementary school in a southeastern state. The problem addressed in this study was that it was unknown how teachers were implementing the STEM framework within their classrooms within a school district in South Carolina.…

Professional organizations and researchers in the field of instructional design and technology (IDT) have attempted to identify the competencies that IDT professionals should possess using a variety of methods, including a job announcement analysis, surveys, and interviews. While most of the previous studies identified the IDT competences based on…

Purpose: Although doctoral education has experienced substantial development in recent decades, it remains an elite, hence fragile, dimension of university policy and practice. This study aims to articulate perspectives to guide the next phase of strengthening and growth. Design/methodology/approach: Working from theoretical and empirical research…

Recently, school districts have relied on professional learning (PL) to help teachers adopt curricula and implement practices aligned with the science of reading and to help students recover from learning interruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Elementary English Language Arts teachers in Cecil County Public Schools are adopting Bookworms…

This study explores how Hong Kong's latest Chinese history curriculum hybridizes Romantic and Enlightened approaches and how that hybridization converges with/diverges from mainland China's, given the two societies' increased integration in the People's Republic of China. Data were drawn from Hong Kong's and mainland China's latest…

Nature-based learning within the primary school curriculum offers numerous potential benefits. However, there is a lack of clarity about how school grounds can be designed to enable effective nature-based learning. There is also little knowledge of how specific features within green school grounds contribute to specific desirable outcomes, such as…

The purpose of this quantitative, predictive correlational study was to examine if a predictive relationship existed between teachers' sense of efficacy and the dimensions of instructional leadership considered both collectively and individually, among K-12 teachers in North Carolina. The Instructional Leadership Model and Tschannen-Moran and…

Adoption of new curriculum programs is a regular part of education. The problem was teachers lack adequate professional development (PD) and time to acclimate to the implementation of a new English language arts (ELA) curriculum in a school district in the Western United States. The identified gap in the research literature was determining the…