When higher education instructors introduce changes in teaching and assessment strategies to meet either personal or institutional goals, they often navigate practical and political challenges alone. This study investigates the perspectives of Norwegian university instructors in their effort to replace lectures and exams with a series of…

Parental involvement in schools is important in bridging the gap between school and home. Researchers have determined when parents are active partakers in school activities and functions, the performance of all students within the school, not just their own, tend to improve. School personnel must be proactive and create opportunities for parents…

College immunization policies vary. To evaluate the landscape of college immunization programs, we distributed a 45-item survey to college health administrators between July and September 2021. Items measured perceptions of institutionally recommended and required vaccines, enforcement strategies, barriers to vaccine uptake, and the impact of the…

Despite the extensive research studies on teacher mental health and associated contributing factors, a systematic investigation of the different occupational and personal stressors and mental health challenges that teachers cope with remains notably scarce. Using the socio-ecological framework, this research was an attempt to synthesize two…

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…

Schools in England are now encouraged by the government to develop Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE). In each of four state-funded secondary schools, interviews were conducted with staff and students to understand the progress they sought with respect to CCSE and how they envisaged that this would occur. A year later, reflexive…

Introduction: Universal design for learning (UDL) is a pedagogical approach utilized to eliminate barriers. Often, UDL has been seen as a strategy implemented solely to benefit students with disabilities. However, recent research on the voices of students with and without disabilities in physical education illuminates a clear need for this…

Using the Behaviour Change Wheel, this qualitative study first identifies barriers and facilitators to the delivery of webchat mental health helpline support for young people and then suggests strategies for improvement. Eleven online semi-structured interviews with trained helpline volunteers and staff members from a UK-based charity that offers…

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,…

The use of technology to enhance distance learning has become more prevalent in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made distance learning an essential part of education. However, the management of distance learning, where students and trainers are physically separated, has not received as much attention as the practice of distance…

This study reports about the vlog (video blog) integration as a learning media in three different cohorts of Indonesian EFL speaking classrooms. Those cohorts were college students enrolled in the Speaking III class available in the third semester. This class required students to be able to demonstrate speaking skills. There were 29 participants…

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…

This study highlighted how teachers and students perceive the effects of the influx of Rohingya refugees on the teaching-learning environment of colleges for higher education in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. It revealed the issues of admission, the academic environment of the colleges, the attendance and performance of the students,…

Purpose: Motor competence (MC) is important for child health and development, yet MC levels are low. Childhood is an important time to develop MC, and primary physical education (PE) provides an ideal setting. MC assessment is integral to targeted teaching and improvement of MC through a targeted approach. Therefore, the aim is to identify (a) the…

Purpose: We examine how farmer characteristics, farm, institutional, perception and shock factors influence the adoption of the Best Management Practices (BMPs). A thorough understanding of how relevant drivers affect the adoption decision of diverse BMPs can contribute to the development of evidence-based policies. Approach: We use a household…