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,…

This qualitative study critically evaluated whether curricula's power dynamics address the needs of students and educators or serve institutional or ideological agendas. To facilitate this evaluation, the study applied a critical media literacy framework to analyze the pedagogical approach promoted by the Center for Media Literacy within its…

The continued state-sanctioned violence towards marginalized communities and a reactionary political landscape have exacerbated the need for youth of color activists to prioritize holistic wellness. Healing is necessary because although engagement in activism may address root causes of harm, it also takes an immense toll on the bodymindspirit…

Legislation in the United States has increasingly led to limitations on what and how educators are able to teach in the classroom. These measures, often deemed divisive concept laws, can lead to a host of challenges for music educators, impacting student/teacher relationships, repertoire selection, pedagogical practices, and student and teacher…

Academic harassment, which is the abuse of power in higher education, is a global concern in science academia. It hinders the careers of young researchers, particularly graduate students, and creates a toxic environment that fosters misconduct and turnover. Consequently, scientific progress is slowed and national scientific integrity is…

Questions are an essential aspect of decision-making by families and early educators in a range of contexts, and are particularly important during the informal assessment and collaborative planning that characterize home visits. Yet recommendations for questions tend to focus on form alone, such as encouragement to ask open- rather than…

High-quality early childhood education (ECE) is widely regarded as an essential right, with leadership playing a vital role in its delivery. Effective pedagogical leadership significantly enriches children's learning, development, and overall well-being by nurturing collaborative settings and promoting shared decision-making processes. Limited…

The idea of co-creating curricula with students has gained momentum in recent years to challenge conventional power relationships within universities through amplification of student voice and advocacy for meaningful student participation in teaching, research, and service. This is a necessary response to facilitate higher education transformation…

This mixed-methods study explores the gender microaggressions experienced by female teachers in Turkish schools, examining their types, sources, causes, consequences, and frequency. In the qualitative phase, semistructured interviews were conducted with 17 female teachers using a phenomenological approach. Thematic analysis revealed four key forms…

Repetition compulsion is a psychodynamic concept that explains an attempt to master trauma. This case study attempts to understand the possible meanings of symbol repetition that occurred in the art therapy process of a twelve-year-old boy with acute methylmalonic acidemia. Over 29 sessions of art therapy, the client demonstrated repetition…

In this paper, we place the issue of university activism in the context of constituent and constituted power. By this we mean the ever-present danger that activists' demands will be co-opted and concurrently deactivated. To mitigate this risk, we develop a set of conceptual tools that enables thinking about the activist university in terms of…

This essay critically analyzes the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), an online public collection of over 8,000 personal accounts related to literacy and learning. Intentionally designed to be somewhat unruly, the DALN's collaborative collection and participatory curation of self-representations can also be understood as an experiment…

This essay uses the reprocessing of the "Luis Alberto Sánchez papers," the collection of a prominent Peruvian politician and author housed at Penn State University, to argue that ethical and reparative processing needs should be prioritized within an archives' overall extensible processing program. The author explores the tension between…

School districts across the United States continue to grapple with systemic educational inequities that are reinforced through anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and racist practices. The inequities keep high quality educational opportunities beyond the reach of our country's Black, Latinx, Indigenous, immigrant, and the many ethnically and…

This book examines the evolution of schooling from bureaucracy and hierarchy to post-industrial schools, and places teachers' leadership on center stage at the same time. That is, it asks teachers to deepen leadership in their classrooms and with other teachers. The book carries education and schooling from formal control to a social influence…