Indigenousness is about long-term occupancy of a place and the knowledge and consciousness that arises from place. In this edited volume, global Indigenous voices engage in truth-telling about 500+ years of colonisation, including loss of population, language, culture, spirituality, and land. Education has been central in facilitating colonialism.…

This edited collection addresses the important study of the conditions that support positive intergroup contact that leads to intergroup friendships and prejudice reduction through a multidisciplinary lens. Employing Intergroup Contact Theory and Intergroup Friendships Theory as conceptual foundations, this book brings together researchers in…

This study examines the needs assessment of design thinking to enhance innovative design competency in preservice teachers' learning management in Thailand. The research aimed to assess teaching performance and identify key areas for developing innovative design competency. A total of 346 pre-service teachers from universities across four regions…

In the urgent move from conventional classrooms to online learning made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers in higher education made hard choices about pedagogy, student support, ethical responsibilities to professions and disciplines, and a host of other considerations. Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are fundamental and explicit…

This research explores adoption of the Deepseek, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform among higher education students in India by integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with learning motivation factors. Given the rapid rise of AI-based platforms in educational sector, understanding their adoption is not only timely but also…

Background/purpose: Chemistry is one of the five science subfields typically covered in secondary schools in the United Arab Emirates. Chemistry is a branch of science that studies the properties, composition, and structure of substances. Numerous subfields fall under the umbrella of chemistry, including inorganic, organic, analytical, and…

In 2020, Uganda's Ministry of Education and Sports implemented a Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) for lower secondary education to equip students with practical skills for the 21st century. Despite its potential for socio-economic transformation, past research revealed that many Ugandan secondary agricultural education teachers lack the necessary…

As a result of Canadian national policy, postsecondary classrooms include many global learners. While many institutions provide faculty development in intercultural teaching, guided by expert-created frameworks, these typically lack a strong student voice. This transformative mixed-methods study sought to identify the ways of faculty knowing,…

This narrative inquiry explores the experiences of two students in an English Medium Instruction (EMI) course at a Macau University. Through the lens of self-discrepancy theory and possible selves theory and drawing on data from field observation, interviews, and informal chats, the findings unearthed significantly different experiences of the…

Developing strong listening skills in a second language (L2) can be challenging for a variety of reasons. Within the context of L2 use in higher education, accurate and timely processing of aural input can be crucial for academic success, particularly because vast amounts of disciplinary-specific content are delivered via academic lectures in the…

Previous studies have not adequately explored the complex relationship between learning satisfaction and perceived learning achievement in adult online education. This study explores the chain mediating effect of online instructional service quality and engagement in online learning on the relationship between learning satisfaction and perception…

This study examined the levels of civic knowledge, civic skills, and patriotic attitudes of undergraduates in North Central Nigeria and the extent to which civic knowledge and civic skills predict their patriotic attitudes. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Three universities in North Central Nigeria were purposively used for this…

Cross-linguistic studies found that reading comprehension correlates with oral reading prosody. The study examined whether text difficulty would be involved in oral reading prosody in orthographically deep languages like Mandarin. One hundred and three fourth-grade children were recruited in Taipei, Taiwan. Their oral reading prosody was elicited…

The number of international students attending Canadian institutions of higher education has dramatically increased over the past two decades. While the tuition revenue generated from these students has become a vital source of funding for universities, research shows that international students often face a host of challenges integrating into a…

A foremost goal toward sustainable energy is decentralizing its production and management. To achieve this, actors in peripheral contexts must be capacitated with novel competencies. Energy, however, remains a highly centralized field particularly in training its workforce. We explore in this paper tensions in producing a specialized track on…