The 2022 World Conference on Early Childhood Education resulted in the Tashkent Declaration, which emphasized the need for an extension of early childhood education to vulnerable children, such as those living with a form of disability. A Gulf country, United Arab Emirates (UAE), participated in the world conference and committed towards…

This study investigates a teacher's use of a textbook in a primary school social studies course. It focuses on the moments when the teacher looks at the textbook during classroom interaction and how this practice promotes and shapes the interaction. Using conversation analysis, it provides new insights into the classroom discourse with reference…

Growth mindset has gained educators' attention in order to shape students' self-beliefs about their intelligence. However, research findings lack consensus on using a growth mindset to improve student outcomes. Therefore, the current study explored the pedagogical practices of selected primary school teachers intending to foster a growth mindset…

Zine-making is a longstanding grassroots feminist practice that merges creativity, activism, and critical inquiry. This article examines the methodological and pedagogical potentials of feminist zine-making and zines, reflecting on the Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment (AKE) workshop series (and zine) held periodically in Australia since 2018. We…

The Higher Education (HE) sector in Syria was established more than 100 years ago, with the first public university in the Arabic world. During these past 100 years, Syria has witnessed huge shifts in its political and social spheres which has been reflected in the governance of the sector. This paper reviews the evolution of the HE sector in…

The integration of formative practice questions with textbook content is a well-known method for increasing student learning, and recent advances in artificial intelligence have made automatic question generation a viable option for scaling this learning method to thousands of textbooks. To expand this method to even more students, a parallel…

Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude nonhuman animals. This study assessed processing of undermining defeaters--a basic form of reflective thinking--in 36 two-year-old British children (13 female; M[subscript…

This essay emphasises the imperative to move from discussions about decolonising education to the practical implementation of a decolonial pedagogy. This task necessitates challenging Eurocentric perspectives and incorporating diverse insights into curriculum design and pedagogical processes. By drawing on Edward Said's concepts of democratic…

The authors of this report provide findings and recommendations of a mixed-methods evaluation of a multiyear action research project by Learning Creates Australia (LCAust). The authors aimed to answer five research questions organised around the three focal areas of LCAust's work: convening supporters, curating evidence and demonstrating…

This book focuses on the provision of early intervention for children with disabilities (0-6 years) and their families throughout the Asia-Pacific. The motivation for the book stems from a policy brief by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) issued in 2021. This brief urgently called for young children with…

In many societies today, there has been an increase in out-of-school time education, extended education, for children and adolescents. Extended education is a field that has been growing rapidly in recent years. This issue provides an overview of developments in various countries around the world. Theoretical considerations on similarities and…

Calls to Indigenize the curriculum have been occurring and, indeed, increasing across Canadian universities since the release in 2015 of the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC, 2015). The present article documents the emergence at two universities of a support program for Indigenous curriculum, in the form of digital…

This qualitative empirical study uses interview data from 16 secondary school students in Austria, who experienced lessons in Critical Mathematics Education (CME), to understand how students perceive a CME approach. Despite the long theoretical tradition and the existence of practical reports from the teacher perspectives, there is a lack of…

Drawing on government and university documents, in-depth interviews, surveys, and content data, this paper provides a processual explanation of how the U.S. tenure system as an organizational model rapidly diffused across Chinese universities in the 2010s: the Chinese central state's top-down instrumental strategies--sharply focused on the…

This paper examines social influence among young people in bullying situations. Because of the importance of peers for adolescents, social influence is investigated with a specific focus on relationships that bystander students have with other peers, both existing ones and those they wish to develop. A total of 3,275 young participants (1,665…