Under the current background of higher education, college students face various academic challenges and psychological pressures. Therefore, learning adaptation is crucial to their academic performance and mental health. This study aims to explore the impact of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and learning burnout on college students' learning…

Background: Mid-adolescence is a critical developmental stage during which peer relationships become increasingly important, while academic motivation tends to reach its nadir. Although positive peer relationships are known to promote students' motivation and that high motivation can benefit more positive social behaviours, no studies have…

This paper examines intergenerational mobility in China and Russia during their transitions from central planning to market systems. We consider mobility as movement captured by changes in status between parents and children. We provide estimates of overall mobility, which involves mobility during transition to a system's steady state, as well as…

We examine whether highlighting streaks--instances of repeated and consecutive behavior when completing learning tasks--encourages 4th to 6th grade students in Peru to increase their use of an online math platform and improve learning. 60,000 students were randomly assigned to receive messages that (i) highlighted streaks, (ii) provided…

This book presents new narratives about international students undertaking transnational education (TNE) in East and Southeast Asia. With contributions from leading experts in international higher education, each chapter provides important critical arguments about the outdatedness of traditional labels that we tend to use when describing…

This article contributes to understandings of how decolonising, hypercomplex contexts can entail challenges and opportunities for supervisors and supervisees, including personal and professional growth, socio-cultural dis-/connections, economic or health-related concerns. Increased complexities of supervisory positionings and relationships are…

In a context of global educational policy, several actors are emerging in the negotiations around educational policies that promote the policies that they consider appropriate. In this way, many education systems follow globally structured educational agendas, albeit in different ways. These agendas can be seen as comprising three key policy…

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…

Previous studies employing cross-lagged panel models (CLPMs) found mixed results regarding reciprocal relations between competence beliefs and intrinsic motivation. CLPMs have been criticized for leading to erroneous causal inference in certain situations. Two datasets were analyzed regarding reciprocal relations between competence beliefs and…

This research aims to develop the Career Renewal Power (CRP) Model, which explains career transition processes through the concepts of need perception and need satisfaction, based on Glasser's Choice Theory. To investigate the structure and functioning of the model, two qualitative studies were conducted. Subsequently, the CRP Scale was developed,…

The practice of school inspections is well-established across many European countries. While it is part of broader international traditions and trends, the Flemish Education Inspectorate takes a unique approach. The Education Inspectorate engages in dialogue with schools and operates in a participatory manner. This case study explores the effects…

This article draws on the scholarship of Black Critical Theory in education. It enriches this literature by provocatively commanding scholarly and methodological space for Mad Studies to explore, understand and address, distressed Black pupils' experiences of anti-Black sanism in education in Britain. Currently limited by the proliferation of…

Bennett Reimer's philosophy of music education laid out in his influential "A Philosophy of Music Education" (1970) was born in the height of Cold War superpower confrontation but until recently its connection to Cold War politics and mentality has not been noticed and explored, in large part due to Reimer's decontextualized and…

This paper reports on language attitudes towards the national language (Putonghua), the regional dialect (Chongqing) and the key foreign language (English) of a group of senior high school students (N = 321) in Chongqing in mainland China. Unlike the numerous other studies of language attitudes in China this one is situated outside the more…

The current research aimed to revisit the association of foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language boredom (FLB) by incorporating global and specific levels of the two constructs, relying on the moderating impact of L2 savouring beliefs (L2SB). To improve the precision and accuracy of these evaluations, we adopted innovative analytic…