Belonging is central to many students' educational experiences, yet the field of school belonging contends with limited theoretical grounding specifically developed for educational contexts and unresolved tensions between research and practice. This qualitative study evaluates the applicability of the meta-theoretical "Integrative Framework…

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) not only has the potential to aid L2 academic writing but also poses unique challenges concerning impacts and ethics. Reflection journals, which promote critical thinking and metacognitive awareness, have the capacity to guide GenAI-assisted writing, yet remain underexplored. This study examines and…

Gender differences in creative thinking competency, career interest, and situated expectancy-value beliefs in STEM, have been widely studied separately. This study brings these lines of research together by examining gender differences in the association between adolescents' perceived opportunities for creative thinking, creative thinking…

In this article, we examine the language policy that underlies the training of Norwegian teachers in Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools. Based on a critically oriented document analysis of current policy documents, we consider (1) the language competence required to work as a Norwegian teacher, and (2) what can be inferred from the…

The purpose of this article is to promote a family-empowerment model to serve minoritized, young, twice exceptional (2e), dual language learner (DLL) Latinx children who are advanced in one or more preacademic areas and who receive early childhood special education (ECSE) services due to developmental delay and challenging behaviors. Through…

The present study focuses joint school and university development work in preschool-projects try to increase educational quality. The aim of this study was to explore perceived conditions and perceptions of projects among participants in development projects in eleven preschools. In addition, we were interested in the perceived outcomes of the…

The purpose of the current study is to reveal the perception of group counselors regarding children's social emotional skills with a focus on art therapy. In this study, a partially mixed simultaneous equal-status design from mixed design models was used. The study group of the research consisted of 10-11-year-old students (n: 28, female: 14,…

Kindergarten transition programs support successful school transitions for families and may reduce disparities in academic readiness upon school entry. Yet, access and participation in high-quality summer transition programs are lower among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. This study examined the impact of a summer kindergarten transition…

Background: According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), motivation is inherently present in every individual, growing from amotivation via controlled to autonomous motivation, through fulfilment of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness. Peer relatedness has been found to influence motivation multimodally.…

Assistive technologies (AT) are products and devices which are designed or adapted for people with disabilities. Within schools and colleges, AT is often deployed to support learners with a range of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This report summarises published literature on AT training for education professionals, together…

This study investigates the nature of co-construction in roleplays conducted with human versus AI interlocutors for assessing interactional competence (IC) in L2 English. Seventy-five university students in Japan completed roleplay tasks with both human tutors and an AI agent. The AI agent is a multimodal dialog system integrated with a large…

Teachers' social-emotional competence (SEC) underpins students' SEC, and selfassessment helps educators identify strengths and areas for improvement. Our study adapted CASEL's Personal SEL Reflection tool for the Estonian educational context. Data from 528 primary and secondary school teachers resulted in a refined and shortened 15-item instrument…

With the intensification of globalisation and international exchange, intercultural communicative ability has become a focal point in English as a foreign language education in Chinese secondary schools. However, recent studies have indicated that the developmental construct of intercultural awareness is sometimes conflated with intercultural…

Inspired by Bourdieu's theory of class reproduction, this article presents findings from an exploratory qualitative study of urban Chinese parents' engagement with teachers through Home-School WeChat Groups (HSWGs). Parents' strategic messaging in HSWGs, marked by subtle class differences, was shaped by hegemonic discourses yet also reflected…

Purpose: This study examined the training and knowledge of current practicing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and their perceived competence in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is a follow-up to Schwartz and Drager (2008), with some modifications reflecting "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition"…