This article shares stories of seven-year-old Anh, participating in brokering practices to support his mother at home as a caring multiliterate practice. We contextualize brokering as complex linguistic, cultural, social, and pragmatic negotiations, and emphasize the particularities and complexities of this affective labor that many children from…

Research shows that targeted interventions for language comprehension and production benefit the development of English language proficiency and literacy skills of English Learner (EL) students. Despite this, many ELs in the United States do not receive such academic support, as few programs are designed to address the needs of ELs. Educational…

Conventionally, undergraduate science students engage in learning through didactic methods. This can present science as an indisputable collection of knowledge, rather than an ongoing process of discovery. By increasing students' exposure to scientific processes, undergraduate science programs can enable students to understand the complexities of…

Digital adoption has increasingly been seen as a key driver for accelerating human development. However, contextual factors affect digital adoption in a particular geographical setting. These factors have gendered differences due to systemic patriarchy and social stereotypes. There is limited scholarship on identifying such factors and gender…

This paper investigates a flipped classroom teaching model that integrates deep learning into the design of college physical education instruction. By adjusting the time schedule inside and outside the classroom, the model shifts the focus of teaching to students, and the teacher's role changes from knowledge transmitter to learning guide. The…

Research-based and practical reflection tools can enable systematic analysis of practice and contribute to deeper understandings of classroom processes. An empirically based, evidence-informed reflection tool was developed to support teachers to recognise feedback talk and how it is built into classroom interactions. The tool, titled the feedback…

Current science education reform efforts have identified sensemaking as an important goal of science education, and science education researchers have studied what constitutes the sensemaking process in the science classroom. Because the studies of sensemaking are loosely linked to those of scientific reasoning, however, they have provided little…

Scientific literacy is a person's ability to think and behave scientifically, apply scientific knowledge, and make decisions in solving problems in everyday life. Biology students are expected to be able to develop scientific literacy. One of them is in the material of plant metabolism. Understanding the concept of plant metabolism will help…

Research has well documented the opportunities and benefits of connecting mathematics instruction with children's literature. One approach to achieving this is through stories that weave mathematical content into creative and engaging narratives. This paper examines the K-2 Mathical Book Prize winners and honorees as texts with significant…

Fathers today are more involved in their children's lives than ever before, and their engagement in early learning activities like playing, reading, singing, drawing and visiting parks or libraries supports children's emotional, cognitive and educational development, as well as their early language and literacy skills. This report revisits and…

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't simply a new classroom tool -- it is a transformative force that requires intentional planning, structured professional learning, and ongoing assessment of how educators are learning and integrating these technologies into their practice. Soon after generative AI tools became widely available, Township High…

This article presents findings from a qualitative content analysis of 531 Little Golden Books that contain early childhood marginalia--any physical alteration of a book, resulting from an exercise of reader agency by a child from birth through eight years old. The primary goals of the present study were to expand the reach of this methodology by…

Joy is not extracurricular or solely an out-of-school pursuit. Every day in the English language arts (ELA) classroom has the potential to be lit. In this article, the authors illuminated how pedagogies with Hip Hop content and creative practices, undergirded by antiracist pedagogies, facilitated joy and learning for students. A Black male English…

This study was conducted to understand the importance of curriculum literacy in education and current trends in the literature. The research covers national and international academic studies published on SCOPUS. Studies on curriculum literacy during this period were examined to determine the contents and trends addressed at different levels of…

The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of elementary preservice teachers' (PSTs') problems of practice around literacy instruction and to explore how the PSTs framed/talked about such problems. The study comprised qualitative analysis of data collected from focus group interviews with 21 PSTs from five teacher education institutions…