This study seeks to explore the impact of learning scenarios on pre-service science teachers' (PSSTs) perceptions of constructivist learning and their dispositions toward instructional technologies. Adopting a single-group pretest-posttest experimental design, a quantitative research methodology was employed. The participants consisted of…

This study sought to identify social and emotional traits and characteristics of wellbeing and resilience gained from participation in instrumental music in secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. This involved exploring student perceptions concerning learning experiences and relationships in instrumental music lessons and ensemble activity in…

This study examined school outness, school climate, and country inclusivity to assess their associations with bias-based bullying and cyberbullying among sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) in Europe in 2020-2021 (N = 12,764; M[subscript age] = 16.07; 69% female; 43% cisgender girls; 31% bisexual). Outness was positively related to bias-based…

Purpose: While women earn an equal proportion of undergraduate degrees in biomedical engineering, there is a significant decline in female representation at the graduate and faculty levels. Prior studies suggest that an inclusive environment could increase female retention in engineering, and there has been increased interest in adding elements of…

To investigate the antecedents of children's trait- and state-level peer competence, this study used a random-intercepts model to separately explore the influences of early stable predictors (i.e. temperament and attachment) and dynamic environmental factors (i.e. family and school) on peer competence. The study sample included children in the…

Major switching is a common occurrence in higher education institutions worldwide, with over one-third of students changing their academic focus at least once during their undergraduate studies. However, there is limited understanding of the extent to which switching majors influences academic performance and how this process unfolds within a…

Although Philadelphia's nineteenth-century public school system was praised by some contemporaries for its efficient administration, the city's sudden embrace of clinical discourse and "bottom-up" hygienic initiatives between 1896 and 1898, along with critical reports on poor sanitary conditions by the early 1910s, suggest underlying…

Background: Engineering has its own unique disciplinary culture that establishes norms and ideals. Many of these norms and ideals are centered on White, masculine, heteronormative constructs, which tend to presuppose able-bodiedness. Students with disabilities in engineering must navigate spaces that contain inherent social and physical barriers.…

Competency-based education (CBE) represents a crucial approach for aligning educational systems with community requirements. The approach is founded on principles that delineate the essential attributes of key educational components: educators, learners, curriculum, and learning environment. In light of the ongoing challenges within Iran's…

The interweaving of various societal challenges into polycrisis makes resolving nowadays wicked problems increasingly complex, asking for a transformation of both our design and our education practices in the Global North. In this paper, we describe why and how we are developing and researching a multi-actor educational and learning environment…

In this theoretically informed article, we introduce and define Fugitive Pedagogy as a framework for action, building on Givens's biography of Carter G. Woodson. We first introduce our current education context and outline the need for a Fugitive Pedagogy approach. We describe how we developed Fugitive Pedagogy as a theoretical and analytical…

The PISA 2022 evidence suggests that having a growth mindset is related to positive learning outcomes. However, this positive relationship is clearest among students performing at middle proficiency levels, where belief in improvement aligns with tangible opportunities for progress. For lower-performing students, by contrast, the relationship is…

The pedagogical environment's significant role in education is viewed as a "third educator" in Reggio Emilia's pedagogical philosophy. This study employs a posthuman theoretical framework and an art-based educational research method to explore how teachers experience the role of physical pedagogical environments, the barriers that may…

When writing about transformation in higher education (HE) in South Africa, it is quite popular to mention the fall of apartheid, and perhaps also 1994, as a starting point for significant change. I, myself, have made this mistake (see Bernard, 2015). However, the recent #FeesMustFall protests highlighted that many approaches to transformation…

Education faces barriers all over the world, which sometimes makes it difficult to look after children's rights and their individual development. Hence, society is clamoring for new practices, and different approaches are emerging, Montessori among them. Despite the fact that this approach was developed to attend to the poor strata, nowadays it is…