This article discusses a model, created through the collaboration of two professors at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, for using children's literature to inspire service-learning during an Early Childhood pre-student teacher field placement. It defines service-learning to promote active citizenship and civic engagement for young…

Education plays a vital role in fostering trust -- both in institutions and among individuals. It does so by developing foundational skills such as literacy and numeracy, nurturing the values and attitudes needed for democratic participation, and ensuring that education institutions themselves earn and sustain learners' trust. Recent global…

Carolin Dale wondered whether she created enough opportunities for her English-language learners to challenge themselves as they used English orally in her classroom. She decided to find out. She started by investigating whether she was taking up too much of the "speaking time". As a result of what she discovered by recording and…

While the Hungarian education authorities enforced a strict and compulsory school enrolment policy for students fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine, it did not provide sufficient professional support and guidance to the schools about the inclusion of displaced students. This rigid and unstable integration policy led to moral and political dilemmas for…

This study investigated whether learners' task motivation predicts their task engagement, and whether their task engagement is associated with subsequent L2 learning. Task motivation was operationalized through situated expectancy-value theory (SEVT; Eccles & Wigfield, 2020), a model of the proximal (i.e., task-specific) social-cognitive…

The following article addresses a conundrum: What if child assent in research were a fully informed, standalone process that empowered all children to discuss meaningfully, negotiate, and decide how and what the research experience would look like? Past research and practices suggest that child assent, when children (youths to 17-year-olds who…

Although adolescents' social mobility beliefs are thought to be strongly associated with academic achievement, the impact of parental social mobility beliefs on adolescents has not been considered in previous research. The relationship between parents' and adolescents' social mobility beliefs, as well as their associations with adolescents'…

Among the variety of communication possibilities between home and school, face-to-face conferences. The present study focuses on a sub-genre that can be defined as a "students developmental conference": a meeting involving the students, family representatives, and where the main goal is to support students' development and self-analysis.…

Involvement of users in the design process is generally viewed favourably, both within academia and industry. Their involvement can be seen as a strategy for designers to clarify their design task and reduce uncertainties in the design process. Simultaneously, there is a lack of understanding about the impact that user involvement has on students…

Digital platforms have become central to interaction and participation in contemporary societies. New forms of 'platformized education' are rapidly proliferating across education systems, bringing logics of datafication, automation, surveillance, and interoperability into digitally mediated pedagogies. This article presents a conceptual framework…

Background: Behavioural public policies, known as nudges, suffer from lack of citizen consent and involvement, which has led to an argument for more reflective nudges, known as 'nudge plus'. Aims and objectives: How can more citizen reflection be introduced in a way that is not itself top-down and paternalist in spite of good intentions? How might…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to chart the development of Makerspaces in higher education (MIHE), by building a map of existing research work in the field. Based on a corpus of 183 manuscripts, published between January 2014 and April 2021, it sets out to describe the range of topics covered under the umbrella of MIHE and provide a…

Asynchronous online discussion is a learning activity commonly used in online teaching. The way instructors participate in asynchronous online discussions significantly impacts students' learning outcomes. This systematic review aims to determine the effects of instructor participation in asynchronous online discussions on student performance by…

Critique of citizenship education has suggested citizenship should be reconceived, not as a status, but as something that people continuously do: citizenship as practice. This article draws on a two-year ethnographic study of citizenship practices in a Scottish primary school examining how citizenship curriculum was distributed across children's…

The purpose of the study is to explore various facets of engagement in courses with Learning Assistant (LA) support. LA programmes frequently demonstrate positive effects on student learning and persistence, yet less is known about the nuances of the impact on student engagement. Data collected from students and LAs via online questionnaires are…