The Leadership Pathways Project was created out of a need to learn directly from home visitors of color about the successes, barriers, and strategies that this vital component of the workforce incurs when striving for leadership opportunities. There is a current and much needed focus on home visitor workforce well-being, and numerous academic…

Philippine higher education is fraught with challenges in access, relevance, and quality. Initiatives at addressing these issues have often been adopted as government-mandated regulations. Academic program offerings are likewise highly regulated. Private institutions make up most of the higher education providers but differentiation in regulatory…

Students minoritised because of their race and/or ethnicity have a different university experience from their peers, which is reflected in degree completion statistics, awarding gaps, and graduate outcomes. One factor influencing these outcomes is students' sense of inclusion and belonging with the university, which is lower in minoritised…

Although digital technology is valorized for its promises in empowering individual learners and democratize educational opportunities, such hopeful imaginaries need to be critically revisited. What is the role of social media in addressing educational inequality? This study aims to unravel the question by examining the role of social media in the…

Arizona education savings accounts (ESAs) empower parents in the state with the freedom and flexibility to customize their children's education. Participating parents receive 90 percent of the state funds that would otherwise have been spent on their child in public school via a restricted-use savings account. Parents can use those funds to pay…

This chapter describes how profession based hierarchies (stratified social orders between professions) may appear in a teaching context of interprofessionality involving a variety of health professions presenting challenges to learning and offers suggestions on how these challenges can be overcome.

Although people attempt many creative problem solutions, in general, most creative problem-solving efforts, at least real-world efforts, fail. In the present effort, we examine the reasons creative problem-solving efforts typically fail. We argue that creative problem-solving efforts fail, in part, due to the fundamental nature of the kinds of…

The objective of this research was to investigate the main difficulties encountered by teachers when working on environmental education in the various disciplines of the school curriculum. The qualitative methodology was used in the home study format. This study was carried out with teachers from three State Colleges of the Public Education…

The historical appropriation of epistemological values is the theme of the article. Bachelard, one of the pioneering thinkers on epistemological evolution, presupposed that historical epistemology will culminate in the end of its history. Scientific imagination should be decluttered from human sentimentalities, Bachelard observed. For that, it is…

The term "homeschooling" denotes the process of educating, instructing, and tutoring children by parents at home instead of having this done by professional teachers in formal settings. Although regulation and court rulings vary from one state to another, homeschooling is legal in all fifty American states. Contrary to the growing…

This study investigates the primary factors influencing school achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic from students' perspectives. The pandemic exacerbated educational inequalities, emphasizing the essential role of teacher effectiveness in boosting student achievement and the significant impact of remote learning challenges. Using focus groups…

Games play a very important role in promoting incidental learning and help in exploring both the conscious and subconscious processes such as insight of a learner. Digital Game-Based Learning and assessments are now an integral part of educational practices. When designed effectively digital games can take the learners from the stage of…

In the modern history of the United States, investment in the teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics has resulted in a rich variety of education innovations (programs, practices, models, and technologies). Although a number of these innovations have had the potential to impact learners on a broad scale, that potential often…

Institutional approaches to co-creation are shifting away from directive methods to more active and participatory design approaches. New tools for problem solving such as design thinking are becoming increasingly popular in universities. Leveraged incorrectly, they often risk excluding parts of the community. Effective implementation requires more…

This study explores indigenous pedagogical methods for teaching geometry in three secondary schools within the Kalomo District of Zambia. The study addresses three primary objectives: (1) exploring the utilization of Indigenous pedagogical methods in teaching geometry, (2) assessing the impact of integrating traditional knowledge on student…