Humanitarian engineering (HE) graduate programs aim to improve environmental and social equity by training engineers to identify and rectify disparities in infrastructure services. While these programs help increase the engineering field's focus on equity, students involved in HE activities have reported questioning their ability to have a social…

Most core process control courses teach skills little used in industrial practice. In contrast, learning how process objectives translate to control objectives in the form of continuous feedback controls, continuous and discrete logic, and sequential logic for batch operations is more relevant to practicing chemical engineers. These design and…

This study aims to develop learning to learn and self-learning in the architectural design studio. The study considers that one of the ways in which the architectural design studio can be resistant to environmental conditions is to be aware of and manage the way the architecture student learns. The main theme of the methodological approach is…

Raising citizens' awareness of the importance of microbiology in everyday life is crucial, especially considering the recent societal challenges such as emerging diseases or antibiotic resistance. Integrating this awareness into secondary education is essential, yet teaching microbiology requires alignment with national curricula. To evaluate how…

Transdisciplinary research is increasingly important for solving complex societal problems. Institutions aim to train graduate students to engage in transdisciplinary research. However, limited evidence exists regarding the process by which students learn transdisciplinary thinking. This qualitative study explored graduate students' pathways of…

Can you learn better by doing something yourself (DIY) or by watching somebody else do it? We present a new approach to examine this perennial question in research on learning and instruction. In a science learning task, children aged 5 to 7 years (N = 95) either generated predictions themselves (active condition) or observed the predictions of a…

Objective: The current math course-taking plan for U.S. high school students is not optimized for all, with advanced math course participation skewed toward White and Asian students and varying across schools due to resources and policies (Dalton et al., 2007; Byun et al., 2015). These disparities widen achievement gaps and reduce STEM diversity.…

This study explores Polish and Chinese international students in London through the escalator region framework, analyzing sixty qualitative interviews to identify distinct mobility strategies. It is found that most Polish participants employ London as a stepping-stone toward international careers, benefiting from EU mobility policies and…

Background: Adolescence is crucial for nurturing motivation in peer relationships and for academic achievement. Although social and academic intrinsic values develop together, the direction of their development remains inconclusive. Aims: This study examined the longitudinal relations between social and academic intrinsic values to clarify their…

Background: Positive marital relations are crucial for healthy family functioning, whereas conflict-ridden marital relations are linked to children's adjustment problems. According to the Emotional Security Theory, destructive interparental conflict leads to children's emotional insecurity, impacting their adjustment. Objective: This three-wave…

This paper explores the project of Critical University Studies (CUS). Rather than rehearsing the already well-rehearsed critiques of the contemporary academy, however, the paper adopts a more unusual approach and offers a philosophical exploration of the structure of hope to be found within CUS. Drawing on recent research within the philosophy of…

Few studies assess the long-term impacts of programs for teenagers designed to foster leadership and public service. Here we contact former participants in one such program, the Champions of Caring Ambassadors Leadership Program, to see how they may have been influenced in adulthood. We find that participants remember specific aspects of the…

Competent online learners have dexterity as they can manoeuvre a wide range of learning technologies and online learning strategies to learn successfully. In this study, we approach university students' online learning competence as 'online learning dexterity' or an ability to manage different aspects of online learning with appropriate…

Where do we learn? What are our experiences of relationships in those contexts? Could teaching a course outside activate the wâhkôhtowin imagination? Can walking begin to repair relationships? Donald suggests that it can; and yet, another of the concepts Donald discusses, that of fort pedagogy, cautions us to listen and not claim. Is it possible…

A good case can be made that a necessary precondition to heal both society and schooling is "democratic education" -- the process by which people develop with full recognition of their individual backgrounds, beliefs, and needs to become critical, socially engaged citizens who can participate productively in the transformation of their…