This study identifies different factors that contribute to Bahraini pre-service teachers' interest to specialize in early primary education. The sample of study comprised 108 year one and 49 foundation students enrolled in Bahrain Teachers College at the University of Bahrain. A stratified random sampling technique was used to insure the…

Environmental characteristics that have been empirically shown to improve creative outcomes in organizations include furniture and greenery. Virtual environments (VEs) are emerging as new work environments, but their potential to promote creativity has yet to be studied in detail. This work aims to explore which aspects in the holistic perception…

This study explores the identity development of novice language teacher educators (NLTEs) as they transition from imagined identities to practiced identities within professional contexts. Drawing on social cognition representation theory, the research examines how NLTEs construct, negotiate, and enact their professional identities, focusing on the…

School counselors often experience high levels of stress, partly because they are often expected to perform noncounseling duties due to obscure perceptions of the counselor's role. Role stress is often related to negative outcomes for the well-being of healthcare and mental health professionals, such as elevated levels of depression and turnover…

This article interrogates the affective, discursive, and material registers of academic precarization for Swiss and international Early Career Researchers (hereafter: ECRs), specifically in a three-step initiative put forward by a larger self-organised committee of ECRs institutionally regarded as promising scholars. First, in this…

Despite its transformative promise, information literacy (IL) remains constrained by its narrow locus and siloed nature. This study confronts this by synthesising insights from critical (CIL) and workplace information literacy (WIL) domains, thereby advancing the conceptualisation of the critical workplace information literacy (CWIL) construct. It…

This basic qualitative study was part of a larger research project and specifically explored the experiences of 10 seasoned student affairs professionals from four-year universities who overcame obstacles associated with COVID-19. Participants in this study contemplated leaving student affairs due to poor job factors, feeling devalued, stressful…

Current research on educational leadership indicates that women in various school management levels face numerous challenges in fulfilling their duties. Departmental heads, occupying the third tier in school leadership hierarchies, often experience significant difficulties in their role as curriculum managers. This paper presents findings from a…

This study examines professional standards policy documents for teachers and school leaders in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to ascertain where and how the concepts of wellbeing and resilience are addressed and enacted within each nation's policy. Eight policy documents comprising four professional…

The aim of this study was to test the mechanisms that foster innovative behavior in small firms. We propose a model in which small business entrepreneurs, motivated by personal value preferences, shape the work environment for their employees by providing them with job autonomy, which in turn fosters their innovative behavior at work. The…

This study was conducted as a qualitative, single case study. This study obtained data from online Zoom interviews collected from semi-structured, open-ended interview questions. This study aims to examine what role servant leadership has in employee work performance in higher education institutions in West Virginia, from the lived experiences and…

Institutional politics and emerging changes to the professoriate have potentially positioned tenure-track faculty within an academic labor system that assumes academic training and expertise guides their progression. This qualitative narrative study of 12 higher education and student affairs (HESA) pre-tenure faculty explored their navigation of…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationships between affective commitment (AC), innovative work behavior (IWB) and organizational socialization strategies (training, coworker support, understanding and future prospects) to ensure the viability and prosperity of businesses in Iraq. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology includes…

The article presents a systematic review of studies on the construction of current policy on labor inclusion, highlighting the role of the arts in the international landscape. The aim of this article is to analyze studies that address inclusive labor policies, highlighting the arts as a labor sector in the international context. A systematic…

Internships are an impactful form of workplace learning that helps undergraduate engineering students acquire and enhance competencies to improve their employability. However, the nuances about what makes an internship successful are not well understood. Furthermore, learning during engineering internships has not been thoroughly researched.…