Purpose: This paper aims to articulates how educators are ideal candidates to become "brand ambassadors", triggering dormant qualities to influence behavioral change. The study aims at advocating a call for environmental futures by mobilizing pedagogues for change-making. The research purpose was to deduce insights of real-life…

This study has separated into two stages. In the first stage, we interview with nine students and discover three crucial elements, perceived ease of learning, enjoyment, and useful knowledge, which will affect students' learning attitude. Then we develop a series of gamification curricula for those learners. In the second stage, we adopt…

This chapter argues that the challenge to global education lies in helping students develop critical global citizenship and suggests that the high-impact practice of vocational reflection can change misplaced attitudes toward the purpose of global engagement.

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of training on learning disabilities (LD) on school counsellor candidates' perceptions related to students with LD. The study group was comprised of 51 students in the Counselling and Psychological Guidance Department. The participants responded to an open-ended question: 'Students with learning…

Today, engineers are expected to face challenges that involve complicated social elements related to new technological developments and their adoption. In this scenario, there needs to be a renewed attention to the instilment of general epistemic beliefs that facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration and the incorporation of social science…

The establishment of the Next Generation Science Standards brought climate science into standards-based education. However, teachers face challenges implementing these standards, including a lack of resources and textbooks, which may not accurately describe climate science or the forces driving those changes. A climate science workshop was…

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of in-service education designed to improve early childhood teachers' environmental awareness, knowledge, attitudes and their skills on integrating environmental issues in their teaching. Thirty early childhood teachers in the treatment group and Thirty in the control group participated the study.…

This study applies implicit person theory (IPT) to serious gaming. IPT scholars argue that individuals hold one of two views regarding perceptions of ability: growth mindset (abilities are malleable) or fixed mindset (abilities are unchanging). Extant literature demonstrates the many educational benefits afforded to learners who hold a growth…

Research has documented the presence of norm misperception in the context of school bullying, as children and adolescents typically underestimate the degree to which their peers disapprove of bullying behavior. Despite commonly held attitudes in opposition to bullies and in support of helping victims, widespread misperception of the norm makes…

Historically Black youth have been labeled as needing to be "saved" and "fixed" because they are "at-risk," "broken," and more likely to subscribe to deviant behavior. This deficit rhetoric frames community-based education programs (CBEPs) that serve Black youth as vital spaces that must prevent and save…

Integrated STEM education (iSTEM) has been promoted as an effective approach not only to develop scientific and mathematical literacy among learners, but also to improve student attitude towards learning STEM. By realizing these purported benefits, iSTEM is posited to encourage students' pursuance of STEM-related careers. While there are existing…

In Western industrialised contexts, ecological problems such as climate change are sensed and come largely to be known through media representations. In this article, we consider "aesthetic practices" as a concept for understanding the ways in which the visual sensible world relating to climate change is continuously distributed.…

In this study, I explored how two Black high school students experienced a food justice curriculum and school-based gardening activities by examining student reflections, interviews, and classroom observations using a critical race theoretical framework. Findings suggested that in addition to learning key agricultural skills and concepts,…

Generation Z has come of age in a world inundated with an immediate and constant flow of information from a variety of sources. This information is usually uncurated, unverified, and presented in ways that make it difficult to discern the source and the veracity of the information. While previous generations had access to similar information, it…

A teacher and author shares vital ways to help students counter climate despair with hope, agency, imagination, and activism.