Purpose: The purpose of this article is to advocate for the use of arts-based research, particularly comic-making within narrative and ethnographic research on physical education. Method: A discussion of comics-based research is provided herein that outlines the affordances offered by the comics medium as a tool within research, particularly…

In this article we describe and reflect on a large-scale regional adult literacy initiative in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Bahia, Todos pela Alfabetização (Everyone for Literacy), known locally as TOPA, was active between 2007 and 2014. In Brazil 7% of the adult population (11 million people), are illiterate; in the state of Bahia the…

For the advancement of humanity, scientific creativity is a crucial skill for coming up with innovations, addressing existing issues and interpreting particular scientific phenomena. The present study aimed to determine the scientific creativity level of 23 primary school students. In a single cross-sectional study, a descriptive survey…

Student conduct in Canadian universities is generally guided using student conduct policies, which are overseen by student affairs professionals. This structure around student conduct attempts to encourage appropriate behaviour or community standards among students attending university. The concepts of "conduct" and…

Early childhood inclusion in Canada is embedded in each province's policies, programs, services, and educational environments. In recent years, various studies in Canada have focused on inclusion practices and issues, family perspectives, staff training, and collaboration, particularly in the context of childcare and preschool practices. Since…

The aim of the present study is to examine the effect of COVID-19 victimization experience (CVE) on university students' academic behaviors, which has not received sufficient attention in current research. Based on the job demands-resources model, which claims that insufficient resources and high demands can result in burnout, the present study…

This article focuses on the validity of the students' attitudes toward mathematics scale based on data from TIMSS 2019. The scale has been reported as having a three-factor structure for decades, but this study assumes the validity can appear differently depending on the country or culture. Thus, the scale should first be checked for invariance…

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, as a flourishing academic genre, contributes to assisting scholars to popularize scientific knowledge to a heterogenous audience. Regarding metadiscourse of 3MT genre, much attention has been paid to the interactional features, while its interactive features have been underexplored. This study examined 3MT…

This study adapts the "Scales for Identifying Gifted Students (SIGS-2)" into Turkish for use from preschool onward, specifically during the candidate nomination stage. Conducted with 974 parents (675 mothers, 299 fathers) of children aged 5-10, it employs Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to evaluate the scale's structure and…

As a commonly experienced emotion, music performance anxiety (MPA) greatly hinders performance. Studies have found that personality traits such as perfectionism served as significant predictors of this maladaptive emotion. However, the extant literature rarely explored the differential prediction of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism or the…

This study analysed 944 acknowledgements sections of information science students' master's final-year dissertations at Nigeria's premier university from 1992 to 2021. Quantitative analyses of the dissertation acknowledgements (DAs) involved descriptives, while qualitative analysis involved content analysis and extraction of useful excerpts from…

Despite the continued global prevalence of discourses of educational inclusion, young people across local, national and international contexts continue to be educated outside of mainstream schools. In England, a diverse market of providers--known as alternative provision (AP)--cater for many of these young people. Unlike the mainstream school…

This article is a reflection on a teacher training workshop organized around the use of film in the process of unlearning and its value in inclusive and transdisciplinary classrooms. The intention was to put film at work in soliciting various personal/cultural/scholarly backgrounds as partial knowledges within a larger, transcultural encounter.…

Effective assessment is ako--a reciprocal relationship in which knowledge and wisdom are shared and mutual learning occurs. For this reason, NZAI (New Zealand Assessment Institute) was established in 2018. It brings together educators from schools, professional learning and development providers, educational agencies and researchers for collective…

This article provides a teaching guide on how to use Canadian sport-related issues to teach business or sports law concepts in university or college business law classes. Special pedagogical perspectives for the U.S. professor are provided throughout the article at relevant points. In sum, Canada is rich with material for a professor looking for…