This evaluation report is intended to support Ministry of Education's decision making about the future of the NEX initiative. The evaluation findings also provide useful insights that contribute to Teacher Development Aotearoa's review of their leadership of the initiative and will be of interest to current and future NEX leaders. Three…

Based on a 16-month qualitative study, this article documents the diverse guanxi practices used by private tutoring entrepreneurs in Chongqing, China. It reveals how these entrepreneurs leverage their social connections to support their businesses. Informed by Karl Weick's theory of organising, we argue that guanxi practices are sensemaking…

This paper explores the role of geographical mobility in reducing overeducation risks in recent university graduates in Spain based on a sample from the Survey of Labour Insertion of University Graduates 2019 (EILU-2019). We distinguish between different moments for mobility and whether it took place across regions within Spain or overseas. We…

Canadian higher education has been critiqued for its inequitable structures and failure to change despite claiming to be inclusive. This paper considers the experiences of 15 academic developers who engage in varied forms of institutional equity work. By focusing on how their work takes place, why they pursue equity work and their relationships…

Learning action cell (LAC) sessions are structured professional development activities tailored for schools to enhance pedagogical skills, teaching methodologies, and assessment methods to improve student academic achievement. This study investigated the implementation of the LAC as an internal development training program for science teachers in…

This study is located in the area of university work-integrated learning (WIL) management, in particular the implementation of both placement and non-placement WIL. The focus of the study is on enhancing WIL coordinators' understanding of WIL as a system, using activity theory as a framework, and to mobilize this understanding to address…

Drawing from role theory, this study explores supervisors' views on co-operative education (co-op) students' roles, variables that shape those views, and how those views relate to supervisors' conceptions of successful WIL experiences. One out of four supervisors in this study saw students primarily as learners. This view was rare in small…

This study identifies the configurations of personal and situational conditions that promote or inhibit creativity. We adhere to the Interactionist Model of Creative Behavior and Complexity Theory, adopting a qualitative research design. Data were collected via an online survey from 197 employees in the research and development departments of…

This study examined whether Chinese adolescents with test anxiety exhibit threat interpretation bias, and how temperament moderates in this relation. A sample of adolescents (n = 1210, mean = 12.27 years of age) were recruited to complete online questionnaires assessing test anxiety, threat interpretation bias, and temperament. Correlation and…

The pedagogic strategies of successful teachers are an important focus for educational research. Successful instructors in martial arts and combat sports earn loyalty and commitment from their students, creating an attractive culture. The paper presents ethnographic data on pedagogical strategies in two educational sites, to demonstrate the…

In recent decades, calls to foster safe learning environments have proliferated in the educational scholarship related to citizenship. Examples range from demands to keep young citizens safe in the digital world through to calls to hold safe conversations around controversial issues. These invocations of safety, however, have raised little…

The age-old debate about the relation between science and society has, in the last two decades, materialized in novel forms at many universities. In this article, we follow the reconfiguration of relevance at one institute of higher education that aspires to become an impact-driven university. We employ a socio-technical instrumentation…

This paper examines how children's agency operates within primary education in England through an in-depth qualitative study of three contrasting schools over two years. While children's right to participate in decisions affecting their education is increasingly recognised internationally, its practical implementation within formal education…

Teachers' beliefs in their ability to positively impact students' learning outcomes has become a strong indicator of teachers' motivation and behaviour towards the instructional strategies they employ. However, measuring the broader concept of teacher self-efficacy is still somewhat problematic as current scales are dated, have measurement…

As societies globalize, mastery of a second language or multiple languages has become an important index to enhance interaction in the society, in that English is a widely used medium of communication globally. For engagement in international business, commerce, science, technology, and governance, the benefits of an efficacious English language…