Background/purpose: This research aims to explore each component of the cognitive autonomy of Indonesian students, who are mostly 17 to 20-year-olds. Materials/methods: Quantitative method with survey types was used in this research. The research sample consisted of 100 first-semester students at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,…

This article examines Ibn Khaldun's educational philosophy through the lens of contemporary children's geographies. Drawing on his reflections in the "Muqaddimah," we analyze historical teaching practices in medieval North Africa and Muslim Spain, focusing on their implications for child development, spatial learning, and moral…

Introduction: Social media has become an effective instrument to enhance adolescents' knowledge-gaining experiences, even in language acquisition. The mechanisms of interactive feedback in such sites can affect motivation and engagement, especially if looked at through the lens of Self-Determination Theory, which highlights the role of competence,…

Self-determination theory (SDT) offers a conceptual framework and practice for more successful and highly motivated university students in distance education. In the context of distance education, SDT has been examined from the perspective of students, academicians and system administrators. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the distance…

The widespread promotion of Chinese in the world is closely linked to the training of pre-service Chinese teachers in China. Agentic engagement in pre-service Chinese teachers' training study is particularly important for their professional ability and career development. Supported by self-determination theory and social cognitive theory, this…

Background/purpose. The process of double-loop learning has the capacity to engender alterations in values, assumptions and strategies. The alteration of values gives rise to a corresponding shift in assumptions and strategies. The present article poses and explores two discrete research inquiries. The present study has been designed to examine…

This study takes a more holistic look at reading support, to explore what else is happening in this teaching and learning context, beyond the acquisition of a more secure knowledge of decoding skills. Children are deemed in need of a reading support intervention when their literacy skills are assessed as being significantly below the levels…

Applying Bourdieu's concepts of field and cultural capital, this study examines the nuanced employability of Chinese student returnees and their strategies amid declining recognition of their overseas credentials in the changing field of the domestic labour market. Drawing on qualitative interview data from 100 Chinese student returnees, this…

To ensure full participation of people with disabilities in research, accessibility of the instruments employed is essential. This paper describes an exploratory research which included the adaptation of the AIR Self-Determination Scale and the Promotion of Autonomous Decision-Making Scale. The adaptation was designed to enable Hebrew-speaking…

Despite the increasing linguistic diversity observed in elementary classrooms, there remains a paucity of research and guidance on how best to support multilingual learners' (MLs') writing development. Drawing on current theories of writing development and research on effective writing instruction, this paper explores key factors influencing MLs'…

In this study, we compared how sustainability, children's agency, and play are addressed in preschool curricula in Sweden and Turkey. Content analysis was used to analyse, interpret, and compare the content. The findings indicated that sustainability is explicitly integrated into the Swedish curriculum but only partly mentioned in the Turkish…

Purpose: This discussion paper critically examines the underlying assumptions of a range of conventional health education theories. It proposes a fundamental shift towards a self-directed learning (SDL) approach that reconceptualises health education as autonomy development rather than behaviour modification. Methods: We conducted a comparative…

This study examines the manifestations and mediating factors of agency for research among four Chinese university foreign language teachers through an activity theory lens. Using a multiple case study approach, data from interviews, journals, documents, and profiles were analyzed via the constant comparative method. Findings reveal teacher agency…

This is the first study to investigate instrumental activities of daily living in older autistic adults. We conducted interviews with fifteen adults (mean age = 60.1, SD = 7.4, range = 50-73) from Australia with no intellectual disability. Analysis included both deductive and inductive steps, to categorise responses using the Occupational…

Approaches to discourse analysis in educational research tend to operate within the boundaries of particular video-based research traditions. We examine four of these traditions that are especially relevant to the learning sciences--conversation analysis, discursive psychology, interaction analysis, and video-cued ethnography--and instead of…